• Question: How come some drugs take longer or don't work on some people?

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      Asked by Fiona Mansell to Alex, Anaïs, Peter, Shreesha on 20 Mar 2015.
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        Anaïs Pujol answered on 20 Mar 2015:

        Injected a drug goes faster than taking it as pill. The reason is the first one goes directly to the blood circulation than the other one has to go through the stomach to be distributed.
        If some drugs don’t work on some people is because their body respond differently, maybe an immune response not excepted, maybe a bad dose of the quantity, maybe the clearance is faster…depend

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        Peter Maskell answered on 21 Mar 2015:

        usually due to genetic differences in people.

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