prescription medication

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meaningsofprescriptionandmedication

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prescription
noun
uk
/prɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/us
/prɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/
a piece of paper on which a doctor writes the details of the medicine or drugs that ...
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medication
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌmed.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌmed.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/
a medicine, or a set of medicines or drugs, used to improve a particular condition ...
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Patients were asked whether they usedprescriptionmedicationfor each condition they reported.
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Older people are major consumers ofprescriptionmedicationand, as such, demand attention in order to minimize the individual and societal costs of poor adherence.
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In summary, co-payments forprescriptionmedicationmay be useful in encouraging people to use generic medications instead of more expensive branded drugs.
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Exceptions were made for approved baby formula andprescriptionmedication.
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For patients with severe risk factors,prescriptionmedicationmay be appropriate.
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The cause of death was determined to be an allergic reaction toprescriptionmedication.
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It was reported that the positive testing was the result ofprescriptionmedicationfor a toothache.
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Contributing to the accident was the pilots overuse ofprescriptionmedication.
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Throughout the 19th and 20th-centuries,prescriptionmedicationbottles were called "medicinal bottles".
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Vedas then began consuming psilocybe mushrooms, which had been stored in aprescriptionmedicationbottle.
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Their qualitative study involved 700 adult and adolescent participants who answered a structured questionnaire aboutprescriptionmedicationhistory,prescriptionmedicationloaning/borrowing history, and likelihood of sharing/borrowing medication.
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The detection and successful prosecution of drivers impaired byprescriptionmedicationor illegal drugs can therefore be difficult.
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Usually, the antimicrobial product is nonprescription, but sometimes a veterinarian may choose to use aprescriptionmedication.
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The report states she was acutely intoxicated on alcohol andprescriptionmedicationat the time of her death.
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He suffered clinical depression for another 7 years until he self-discharged from anti-psychoticprescriptionmedication.
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After finding substantial early success as aprescriptionmedication, it became available as an over-the-counter drug in 1975.
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He admitted he had takenprescriptionmedicationand bought a bottle of alcohol on the night of the accident.
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Eminem also battled an addiction toprescriptionmedicationand nearly died from an overdose in late 2007.
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Bethanechol is aprescriptionmedicationused for treatment, bethanechol can stimulate the nerves of the bladder, making them more responsive to stimulus.
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He stated that his addiction started after he began receivingprescriptionmedicationfor toothache pain after having a tooth pulled by a dentist.
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After the dissolution of her marriage, she became addicted to drugs and confessed to scammingprescriptionmedicationfrom dentists with her aunt.
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