ABSTRACT
Drug dosing most often involves the oral route of administration. The vast majority of
drug dosage forms are designed for oral ingestion, primarily for ease of administration. It
should be recognized, however, that this route may result in inefficient and erratic drug
therapy. Whenever a drug is ingested orally (or by any nonvascular route), one would like
it to have rapid and complete absorption into the bloodstream for the following reasons:
1. Assuming that there is some relationship between drug concentration in the
body and the magnitude of the therapeutic response (which is often the case),
the greater the concentration achieved, the larger the magnitude of response.
