This textbook takes an all-encompassing approach to the topics of drug research and development, manufacturing, methodologies and technology, pharmaceutical regulation, and pharmaceutical marketing. This book covers the essential chemistry to show how a drug was taken from the laboratory to the mass market. Beginning with the discovery of the medicine’s active medicinal components and continuing through its manufacture in a variety of dosage forms, this book shows how a drug went from the lab to the market. The study of medicines covers the whole process of creating pharmaceuticals, from the initial discovery to the point when they are sold commercially. Those who work in the pharmaceutical industry wear a variety of hats, and some of those hats need them to use certain kinds of equipment, carry out specific kinds of research, and comply with specific kinds of legislation. The most common dosage forms, including tablets, capsules, parenteral solutions, suspensions, and emulsions, have all been discussed here in detail. Tablets and capsules are also included. Products that have a regulated release, methods of oral protein administration, and other topics of a similar kind are also explored. The book delves into topics such as the prospects for the pharmaceutical industry in the next years as well as issues such as quality control, safety, counterfeiting, and improper medication usage.