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Drug therapy

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Drug therapy is often usefully divided up into four phases, through which a drug must pass in order to have a beneficial effect. These are:

  • the pharmaceutical phase
  • the pharmacokinetic phase
  • the pharmacodynamic phase
  • the therapeutic phase

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