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... Physicians commonly apply the term " abuse ” to refer to the use of a drug outside a medical context ; this the official definition of drug abuse given by the American Medical Association . The term , however , conveys a moral rather ...
... Physicians commonly apply the term " abuse ” to refer to the use of a drug outside a medical context ; this the official definition of drug abuse given by the American Medical Association . The term , however , conveys a moral rather ...
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... physicians to patients for the alleviation or cure of physical or psychiatric ailments , and the prescriptions are filled and sold at licensed pharmacies . In the United States , there are 315,000 physicians legally per- mitted to write ...
... physicians to patients for the alleviation or cure of physical or psychiatric ailments , and the prescriptions are filled and sold at licensed pharmacies . In the United States , there are 315,000 physicians legally per- mitted to write ...
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... physician . Whatever the intent of the law , it is clear that most addicts simply continued to receive drugs from their physicians , on prescription , instead of directly from their local pharmacists . If a physician construed the ...
... physician . Whatever the intent of the law , it is clear that most addicts simply continued to receive drugs from their physicians , on prescription , instead of directly from their local pharmacists . If a physician construed the ...
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