lifestyle drugs

Quality-of-life medications

Lifestyle drugs are medications taken not to treat illness but to enhance quality of life or personal satisfaction—drugs for erectile dysfunction, hair loss, weight management, or mood enhancement.

The term often carries skepticism about whether such treatments deserve insurance coverage or represent legitimate medical need: Insurance won't cover lifestyle drugs.

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erectile dysfunction · Botox · nootropics · cognitive enhancement · testosterone · medications · retinoids · dermal fillers · anti-aging treatments · hormone therapies · pharmaceuticals · hair restoration · mood enhancers · Adderall · aphrodisiacs · Ritalin · moods · phentermine

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medical necessity

lifestyle drugsantiretrovirals

HIV-suppressing pharmaceuticals

insulin · immunosuppressants · chemotherapy · chemotherapy drugs · epinephrine

therapeutic purpose

lifestyle drugstherapeutic drugs

Substances used for treatment

antibiotics · antipsychotics · blood thinners

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lifestyle, life, style, lives, living, lived, lively, liveliness, lifeless

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