I think you meant 30 µg (micrograms).
And it is indeed tiny. Even for LSD "the only drug measured in micrograms", a typical dose is around 100µg. Most drugs (both the legal and illegal kind) are in the tens of milligram range.
And it is indeed tiny. Even for LSD "the only drug measured in micrograms", a typical dose is around 100µg. Most drugs (both the legal and illegal kind) are in the tens of milligram range.
Levothyroxine (for underactive thyroid) is typically administered in µg doses - but patient confusion with the more common mg means most medical staff will translate any mg dose a patient claims to be taking to µg automatically.
It may be atypical, but it's certainly not rare for drugs to be µg doses.
Perhaps about a hundred years, give or take. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Opium_Convention
The English language just hasn't caught on, yet. At least not completely.
In eg German, people generally differentiate between Medikamente and Drogen, but they still have a Drogerie which is essentially the same as a drug store.
If a doctor asked me if I was 'taking any drugs', I would assume they wanted to know in confidence about anything recreational; not prescriptions/off the shelf medicine.
Eg if your wife asks you whether you've taken your drugs yet, she means the same thing as meds.
To add a little additional context 'Drogerie' mostly sells hygiene products, supplements and the like. They only sell 'Medikamente' which are allowed to be sold over the counter in Germany, which basically is Aspirin and everything that is even more harmless. You will not find the kind of drugs you typically get in a CVS in a German Drogerie.
Every serious drug is only sold in what is called 'Apotheke' = pharmacy.
In Germany Apotheke (pharmacy) and Drogerie (drug store) are very different. I think there is no real distinction between drug store and pharmacy in English, but I'm not sure. There is also Reformhaus which is pretty similar to a small Drogerie with a focus on healthy living.
EDIT: I checked my claim about the Aspirin and it seems I'm wrong. They are not even allowed to sell that. But it kind of reinforces my point: Drogerie doesn't really sell drugs in the sense the word is used in English.
This is... oversimplified, at least. I'm sure usage differs by region, even within the United States, but where I am a "drug store" is a convenience store which either contains or historically contained a pharmacy (in the latter case, there appears to be a decent chance the store is an historical soda fountain/cafe). A pharmacy is a place where one buys prescription medications, often only being a section/counter of a larger store. I would never use the terms interchangeably: one does not buy household goods at a pharmacy, nor does a place become a "drug store" by the filling and sale of prescription medication.
But many US pharmacy chains also have RNs onsite providing services, part time, for vaccines and such. That's not quite the same as an MD but it's different than pharmacology.
The pharmacists' lobby always defends them with 'oh, you need a proper pharmacist in a pharmacy to give people proper advice'. But whenever some intrepid journalist goes and tests the actual advice given by pharmacies in some bout of investigative journalism, the majority of pharmacies tested always fail dramatically.
As for the shops, the one that sells prescription and over-the-counter drugs is called "pharamacie", the next tier is "parapharamacie", which sells vitamins, essential oils, hygiene products, etc... "Drogueries" are actually hardware stores.
Carfentanil is probably more potent then LSD, here is a lethal dose:
https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wosu2/files/styles/x...
"For pain relief, a unit of carfentanil is one hundred times as potent as the fentanyl, five thousand times as potent as heroin, and ten thousand times as potent as morphine, despite having only 14 to 135 times the affinity for the mu receptor."
so about 1/50th of a milligram is deadly... not sure what's the maximum dose before it kills you