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Page 15
... psychiatric ailments , and the prescriptions are filled and sold at licensed pharmacies . In the United States , over 300,000 physicians are legally permitted to write prescriptions , and 150,000 pharmacists working at 60,000 locations ...
... psychiatric ailments , and the prescriptions are filled and sold at licensed pharmacies . In the United States , over 300,000 physicians are legally permitted to write prescriptions , and 150,000 pharmacists working at 60,000 locations ...
Page 222
... psychiatric purposes ; their action is such that , physicians believe , by taking them , troubled individuals are able to lead more comfortable , less anguished lives . These drugs are prescribed by physicians for patients for what is ...
... psychiatric purposes ; their action is such that , physicians believe , by taking them , troubled individuals are able to lead more comfortable , less anguished lives . These drugs are prescribed by physicians for patients for what is ...
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... psychiatric problem , while minor tranquilizers pacified ordinary neurotics , that is , individuals with minor psychiatric ailments . The similarities between these two drug types are superficial ; they are in most ways strikingly ...
... psychiatric problem , while minor tranquilizers pacified ordinary neurotics , that is , individuals with minor psychiatric ailments . The similarities between these two drug types are superficial ; they are in most ways strikingly ...
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