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Why are solvents a drug?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The words "solvent" and "drug" are extremely broad, and so there are some compounds that are both solvents and drugs. But one does not indicate the other, at all. Also, the solvents that are drugs (in the fact that they exert a pharmacokinetic effect) are not all the same in there workings and properties as a drug.

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