{"id":37507,"date":"2016-09-30T15:12:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=37507"},"modified":"2016-10-04T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T10:01:58","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-drugs-and-medicaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/09\/30\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-drugs-and-medicaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Drugs and medicaments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jeffrey_aronson\"<\/a>When is a drug not a drug?<\/p>\n

The word \u201cdrug\u201d first appeared, in various forms, in Middle French and English in the late 14th<\/sup> century, without recorded antecedents. It originally meant \u201cany substance, of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin, used as an ingredient in pharmacy, chemistry, dyeing, or various manufacturing processes\u201d (Oxford English Dictionary).<\/em> It later came to mean \u201ca natural or synthetic substance used in the prevention or treatment of disease, a medicine\u201d, and later still \u201ca substance with intoxicating, stimulant, or narcotic effects used for cultural, recreational, or other non-medicinal purposes . . . a controlled substance used illegally and often habitually.\u201d<\/p>\n

The OED<\/em> lists examples of its use in this last sense from as early as the mid-17th<\/sup> century, but the examples are not convincingly exemplary of the meaning, and it is not until the late 19th<\/sup> century that the sense in which many people nowadays refer to \u201cdrugs\u201d (as in \u201cIs he on drugs\/a drug addict?\u201d) became clearly established. This, however, generates ambiguity. When you say \u201cdrug\u201d do you mean a therapeutic drug or a recreational one?<\/p>\n

Another problem with the word \u201cdrug\u201d is that even in its earliest meaning it refers only to the active ingredient in the product that you administer or receive, which contains, as well as the active drug itself, many other substances, known collectively as excipients (in solid formulations) and the vehicle (in liquid ones), which supposedly lack therapeutic activity.<\/p>\n

We need another, more specific and unambiguous, term\u2014\u201cmedicinal product\u201d, defined<\/a> as a product that contains a compound with proven biological effects, plus excipients, or excipients only, and sometimes contaminants, chemical or biological. The active compound is usually a drug or prodrug but may be a cellular element.<\/p>\n

A medicinal product is intended to be taken by or administered to a person or animal for one or more of the following reasons: (i) as a placebo; (ii) to prevent a disease; (iii) to make a diagnosis; (iv) to test for the possibility of an adverse effect or reaction; (v) to modify a physiological, biochemical, or anatomical function or abnormality; (vi) to replace a missing factor; (vii) to ameliorate a symptom; (viii) to treat a disease; and\/or (ix) to induce anaesthesia. The definition, with its accompanying notes, does not include pharmacological compounds when used to probe systems, such as when phenylephrine<\/a> is used to study baroreceptor reflexes.<\/p>\n

The IndoEuropean root MED meant to measure and hence to ponder, judge, or prescribe. In Latin this resulted in words such as mederi (to heal), medens and medicus (a doctor), and medicamentum (a remedy). The o-grade form, MOD, accommodated the model of modified measurement\u2014moderatio (restraint), moderator (a governor), modestus (temperate).<\/p>\n

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Picture:<\/strong> Medea mixes
medicine for Jason, as
depicted by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John William Waterhouse (1907)<\/p>\n

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In Greek \u03bc\u03ad\u03b4\u03c9\u03bd was a ruler and \u03bc\u03b5\u03b4\u03ad\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b1 a guardian goddess, often applied to Aphrodite, but visible in the name of the Gorgon Medusa. The name of Medea, the sorceress whose skill with herbs led to so much destruction (picture), might also be thought to have derived in this way, and some have indeed suggested that her name is the root of our word medicine. However, her name comes from a different root, meaning cunning, spelt with an eta, not an epsilon, seen in other Greek names: Polymedes and Alcimedes (much or mighty cunning), and Diomedes (counselled by God).<\/p>\n

The Medea syndrome<\/a> or complex<\/a>, from the legend<\/a> recounted by Euripides, is a mother\u2019s hatred for her children, also seen in men<\/a>, or the variant psychopathy<\/a> in which one spouse harasses the other in order to remove access to their children. We might now call that the Titchener syndrome. Another word, \u03bc\u03ae\u03b4\u03b5\u03b1, has a different origin still and means genitals, as in Ganymede, the cupbearer of the gods; \u03b3\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 means joy or pride.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedicament\u201d is an acceptable alternative to \u201cmedicinal product\u201d. Either of these terms should ideally be used in technical literature, and indeed whenever possible, to distinguish therapeutic medicines from recreational drugs, although one cannot expect headline writers, even in specialist journals, to use the longer terms when \u201cdrug\u201d is monosyllabically available.<\/p>\n

So, \u201cWhen is a drug not a drug?\u201d The answer could be \u201cWhen it\u2019s a medicament.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong> is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/p>\n

Competing interests:<\/strong>\u00a0None declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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