The most important thing that distinguishes Drug and Medicine is dose. Medicines are prepared in different dosage quantifying the right amount of drug for achieving a therapeutic outcome.
All medicines are drugs, but are all drugs are not medicines. For example, when morphine is administered to a patient to reduce pain, it is a medicine because a fixed quantity is given to the patient, but when the same morphine is taken without any clinical need it is called a drug. A medicine is created by combining a drug with other pharmaceutical ingredients, such as binders, diluents, and sweeteners.
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