Drug therapy or pharmacotherapy can be explained as
A) the use of drugs to prevent, diagnose, or treat symptoms and disease processes
B) semisynthetic drugs that have been chemically modified
C) the standard with which newer, similar drugs are compared
D) the dispensing of drugs that alter functions of living organisms
Answer: A) the use of drugs to prevent, diagnose, or treat symptoms and disease processes
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