Ontology of drugs/supplements

Posted by alohashirt on October 23, 2005, at 22:53:20

Probably a dumb question:
What makes a drug a drug and a supplement or alternative treatment a supplement? If Shire patented ginger root and the FDA regulated it would that make it a drug?
Conversely, was MDA, which was synthesized in 1910, tested in the 40s, patented by Smith Kline in 1960, and then scheduled as a class 1 drug in 1970, a medication from 1910 to 1970?
Or was it a substance from 1910, a medication from 1960, an illegal drug from 1970?

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