How do pharmacologists know if a drug is an agonist or antagonist?

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I understand the difference between the two, but I can’t find any information on how one determines what a drug will do when it interacts with a receptor site. Is it only figured out through trials after a drug is synthesized and seeing what it does, or is there a way to know/predict just by looking at structures of the molecule/receptors?

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Clinical trials. Give it to a bunch of people who need the money and see what happens basically.

Have a hypotheses based off other similar drugs, but basically it’s a dice roll.

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