pharmacology: interaction

When two or more different drugs or certain other substances are simultaneously present in the body, each may alter the effect of the other in desirable or undesirable ways either pharmacodynamically or pharmacokinetically. For example, many central nervous system depressant may potentiate each others effects. 

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