prescription medication
Medically authorized medicine
Prescription medication is medicine that legally requires a doctor's authorization to obtain.
A pharmacist dispenses it only with a written or electronic prescription.
The term distinguishes these drugs from over-the-counter medications, which anyone can buy freely.
The label said not to mix prescription medication with alcohol.
- doctor's ordersPhysician's prescribed instructions
- pharmacy counterStation for collecting medications
- generic drugsUnbranded pharmaceutical equivalents
- pharmacyMedicinal dispensary
- side effectsUnintended treatment consequences
antibiotics · bioavailability · pharmacokinetics · FDA approval · drug interactions · contraindications · half-life · antidepressants · active ingredient · treatment · pills · analgesics · off-label use · antihistamines · antipsychotics · capsules · pill bottle · child-proof cap
prescription medicationalternative medicine
Non-standard healing practices
quack medicine · snake oil · placebo · folk remedy · folk remedies
prescription medicationillicit drug
Prohibited intoxicating substance
illegal drug · street drug · recreational drug · controlled substance · narcotic