What is the national drug policy?
1 a) What is the national drug policy? The World Health Organization (WHO) defines NDP as “ a comprehensive framework in which each component plays an important role in achieving one or more of the general objectives of the policy (access, quality, and rational use)” b) Give Sixteen principles of the Bangladesh National Drug Policy 1982. The Sixteen Principles of National Drug Policy 1982: 1.The combination of antibiotics will be prohibited. The combination of antibiotics with glucocorticoid or other similar active ingredients will be banned. Harmful liquid forms of antibiotics (e.g., tetracycline) will be banned. Tetracycline may hamper bone growth and may cause discoloration of teeth of a child. Combinations of antibiotics have no therapeutic advantage; instead, it promotes more adverse effects. 2. The combination of analgesics will be prohibited . The combination of analgesics with iron, vitamins, or alcohol will also be banned. Analgesic combinations promote ad...