subject: Hazardous Drugs are Greatly Lethal for the Mankind [print this page] There are a number of drugs that are available in market and are extensively used in the production of useful medicines. It is not mandatory that all the medicines are made of hazardous drugs only. All the drugs are not hazardous by nature. Different healthcare units have formulated certain criterias to categorize hazardous drugs and non-hazardous drugs. All these criterias are not fully standardized but are practiced in every healthcare sector.
Various pharmaceutical professionals have presented a list containing the criterias to judge the noxious nature of drugs. According to these professionals, the drugs possessing characteristics like carcinogenicity, genotoxicity and teratogenicity are considered as hazardous. Genotoxicity implicates any change in the genetic material of the living beings. Carcinogenicity means the ability to cause cancer in humans as well as animals. Teratogenicity means the ability to cause defects on the fetal development. Exposures to hazardous drugs can be highly disastrous that can induce several short term as well as long term health defects.
In addition, the drugs that have the potential to cause reproductive disorders like infertility and cell degeneration are also considered as the perilous drugs. Also some drugs that possess organotoxicity and can cause minor health defects like skin and eye irritation; respiratory disorders are comes under this list.
Some of the treatment therapies including chemotherapy that is used as a treatment of cancer use cytotoxic and antineoplastic agents that are highly perilous and can severely affect the mankind. Safe handling guidelines are to be paid serious heed and all the medical units should be equipped with emerged technologies such as closed system drug transfer devices to keep an eye on the degree of exposures to these drugs on the medical staffs.
Hazardous Drugs are Greatly Lethal for the Mankind
