3.7 - Drugs and Medicines

• What is a medication?

  a drug that is used to prevent, treat or relieve the symptoms of disease
• Do painkillers cure diseases?


  No
• What can help reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance?

  Doctors only prescribing antibiotics for serious bacterial infections

  Patients taking antibiotics for the full prescribed course
• How do antibiotics help to cure bacterial infections?

  They directly kill bacterial cells