Download or read book Pharmacology for Technicians written by Don A. Ballington and published by Amer Soc Health-System Pharmacists. This book was released on 1999 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text for a pharmacology course for students in a pharmacy technician program focuses on drug classes and mechanisms of action in ordr to explain why certain drugs are prescribed for particular disease states. This second edition offers updated discussion of drug actions and interactions, and expanded treatment of generic drugs, the drug approval process, and pharmacokinetics. Internet research exercises are also new to this edition. Ballington is program coordinator for the pharmacy technician training program at Midlands Technical College (Columbia, South Carolina); Laughlin is affiliated with the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee and the U. of Tennessee. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.