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One in five prescriptions is off-label

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Turns out, using chemical compounds for entirely unapproved reasons is completely standard practice. Once a drug is approved for a single specific use, doctors are legally free to prescribe it for literally anything else they see fit. A massive twenty percent of all prescriptions are written for conditions the drug was never officially tested to treat.

One in five prescriptions is off-label
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