drug
Let an agent explain drugs in their medical and legal senses, provide general information on medicines and substances with safety first, route emergencies and dependence to help, and never facilitate illegal supply or misuse.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Emergency Immediate danger.
Overdose
Overdose or reaction.
Overdose
Overdose.
- Is someone showing signs of overdose or a severe reaction? boundary
- Should emergency services or poison control be contacted now? action
Limits
Agent conduct.
Limits
Limits.
- Does the request seek to obtain controlled substances illegally, to synthesise drugs or to get dosing advice for misuse? boundary
- How should the agent decline and offer harm reduction and support information where appropriate? action
Medicine Drugs as medicines.
How
How a drug works.
How
Mechanism.
- How does this medicine work, and what is it used for, according to its official information? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own dose or treatment? boundary
Safety
Side effects and interactions.
Safety
Safety.
- What are the known side effects and interactions, according to the leaflet or regulator? provenance
- Should a pharmacist or prescriber be consulted? action
Law Legal status.
Status
Controlled or not.
Status
Status.
- What is the legal status of this substance here, and what are the penalties for possession or supply? provenance
- Is it prescription-only? provenance
Policy
Drug policy debates.
Policy
Policy.
- What positions exist on drug policy, attributed to their proponents? provenance
- Is the description balanced? boundary
Support Dependence and help.
Dependence
Getting help.
Dependence
Dependence.
- Which support and treatment services exist for drug dependence here? provenance
- Is the person in crisis? boundary
Harm
Harm reduction.
Harm
Harm reduction.
- Which harm reduction information do public health bodies provide? provenance
- How is it presented without encouraging use? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Urea-molasses, liquid food, protein powder, Fish protein powder, Vega, mitotic inhibitor, tubulin modulators, natural drug, illegal drug, euthanasia solution, cannabis-based drug, human flesh tablet
What it is Filled
A chemical substance that produces a physiological or psychological effect when introduced into the body, including medicines used to prevent, diagnose or treat disease, recreational and psychoactive substances, and substances used in animal nutrition and research; drugs are regulated by medicines and controlled substances law, and the term is used in medical, legal and everyday senses.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain drugs in their medical and legal senses, provide general information on medicines and substances with safety first, route emergencies and dependence to help, and never facilitate illegal supply or misuse.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Physiological effect
- Medical or non-medical use
- Legally regulated
- Benefit and risk
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Assist in making, obtaining or using drugs to harm anyone.
- Advise doses or combinations for a specific person outside a prescriber's instructions.
- Help obtain prescription or controlled drugs unlawfully.
- Promote unproven drugs or downplay serious side effects.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision to start, stop or change a person's medication.
May
- Give general information about medicines from official labels and regulators.
- Point people to clinicians, pharmacists and poison centres for personal questions.
Moral aspects Filled
- Drugs heal and harm; accurate information saves lives.
- People who use drugs face stigma that deters them from seeking help.
Who is affected
- Patients
- People who use drugs
- Families
Owners Filled
Steward
The prescriber and pharmacist for medicines; regulators license them and control scheduled drugs.
Master systems
- Medicines regulators' product registers
- National controlled substance schedules
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q11173 - registry parent class
- Q409205 - registry parent class
related
- chemical compound - category
- xenobiotic - category
- medication - medicines sense
- heterocyclic compound - drug chemistry
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.drug
- Wikidata: Q8386 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8386)
Direct properties required Filled
- Mass density: kg/m3 - Density is measured as mass per unit volume at a stated temperature and pressure, with bulk or material density distinguished for powders.
- Solubility: g/L - Solubility is measured as the equilibrium concentration in a specified solvent at a stated temperature and pH.
- Melting temperature: degrees Celsius - For solid substances, thermal analysis measures melting behavior while distinguishing decomposition and differences between crystal forms.
Recognition required Filled
- Regulated products with labels and leaflets
- Medical or non-medical use
- Foods and supplements are regulated separately
- Tablets, capsules, liquids, injections and other forms.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain how a drug works in general terms
- route overdose and emergencies to help
- explain legal status and regulation
- find support for dependence
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Overdose and interactions
- Dependence
- Agents facilitating illegal supply or giving dosing advice
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Medicines regulation and pharmacovigilance
- UN drug control conventions and national controlled substance laws
- Prescription and dispensing rules
Context of use required Filled
- Treatment, diagnosis and, in other senses, substance use subject to law.
- prescription medicines
- over-the-counter medicines
- controlled and psychoactive substances
- veterinary and research compounds
- nutritional products sometimes grouped with drugs
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q8386: drug - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Drug - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should medicines and controlled substances be separate entries?
- How should drug information databases be linked?
- How should support services be localised?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q8386/spec.json