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The Pharmaceutical industry is one of the world’s largest industries, grossing well over $300 billion in the United States alone. Understanding how the drugs the pharma industry develops work and different characteristics of these compounds is important to nearly everyone as 50% of the US population takes at least one prescription medication regularly and nearly everyone takes a pharmaceutical pill at some point in their life.<ref>http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/09/03/129626052/a-portrait-of-health-prescription-drugs-in-america</ref> The following is a growing list of pharmaceutical compounds organized by disorder.  
The Pharmaceutical industry is one of the world’s largest industries, grossing well over $300 billion in the United States alone. Understanding how the drugs the pharma industry develops work and different characteristics of these compounds is important to nearly everyone as 50% of the US population takes at least one prescription medication regularly and nearly everyone takes a pharmaceutical pill at some point in their life.<ref>http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/09/03/129626052/a-portrait-of-health-prescription-drugs-in-america</ref> See also [[WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines]]. The following is a growing list of pharmaceutical compounds organized by disorder.  
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See [[Pharmaceutical Drug Targets]] for a list of drug targets organized by disease.  
See [[Pharmaceutical Drug Targets]] for a list of drug targets organized by disease.  
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The majority of all modern medicinal drugs target members of the superfamily of proteins called the [[G protein-coupled receptor|G protein-coupled receptors]] or GPCRs<ref name="howmany">PMID: 17139284</ref><ref name="pharmtrends">PMID: 21075459</ref>.


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==[[Opioids|Opioid drugs]]==
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