Contents: An introduction to drugs, their action and discovery -- Drug structure and solubility -- Structure-activity and quantitative structures relationships -- Computer-aided drug design -- Combinatorial chemistry -- Drugs from natural sources -- Biological membranes -- Receptors and messengers -- Enzymes -- Nucleic acids -- Pharmacokinetics -- Drug metabolism -- Complexes and chelating agents -- Nitric oxide -- An introduction to drug and analogue synthesis -- Drug development and production.