Drugs and Medicinal Substances

Named pharmaceutical drugs and medicinal substances used to prevent, diagnose or treat disease and injury: synthetic and biologic pharmaceuticals such as aspirin, penicillin and insulin, and medicinal preparations drawn from plants, fungi or other natural sources with an established therapeutic use, covering mechanism of action, approved uses, discovery history and significant risks. Belongs here: a named drug, biologic or medicinal substance administered to patients, whatever its origin or era. Does not belong here: the procedure or method by which a substance or therapy is administered, filed under Treatments; the disease or injury a drug treats, filed under Conditions; the discovery event or research breakthrough that identified a drug, filed under Discoveries and linked back here by an edge; and the person who discovered or developed a drug, filed under Healers.