This will be an on going blog for me to added random things I discover about pharmacy (and that I think you would find interesting)


So, I was looking through my SUSMP and I was flicking through the Schedule 8 drugs (means it is very highly regulated (dexamphetamines is an example of this)) and I came across this drug

It is called Thebacon.
It is a synthetic opioid (morphine is a type of opioid), so it is used for pain relief.

The thing is, I have no idea how to pronounce this drug, because all I can read it as is THE BACON. Theb-a-con maybe?

I just think someone was very hungry at the time when they named this drug


It doesn't really look like bacon...

You sure that drug isn't used to cure anorexia

It actually stops people coughing

I think it would be pronounced to be something like

fe - ba - con

con as in on and not bacon

that pronunciation sounds like a drug

its probably coincidence that its food

maybe there is something like a wikipedia entry which shows why drugs are named what they are

you would know more than me emilia

on another note

i find it hilarious that you actually think its pronounced the bacon

and you call yourself a pharmacy student

I never said I thought that was the way it was said. I said when I see it, I read THE BACON

oh ok lol

i misunderstood haha

Random word of the day: Diplopia

Means, seeing double.

Some drugs can actually make you see in double. That would horrible.

Random slide in lecture for Complementary Medicines

Parachute used to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials BMJ 2003;327:1459-61

•Objectives:
•To determine whether parachutes are effective in preventing major trauma related to gravitational challenge

•Design:
•Systematic review of randomised controlled trials

•Results:
•We were unable to identify any randomised controlled trials of parachute intervention