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a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist
he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly
How To Use ethical drug In A Sentence
- Some medicine we need is ethical drug which you can't buy without a prescription.
- Early returns from a survey now going on in San Francisco indicate that use of ethical drugs is indeed more common in better educated and higher income groups.
- The new opportunities that this offers to the pharmaceutical industry mean that, if they are to be fully realized, companies' future strategies will need to be orientated not only around the key area of ethical drugs but also around the potential long-term role of over-the-counter sales.