prescription medications
Medically authorized treatments
Prescription medications are drugs that legally require a doctor's authorization before a pharmacy can dispense them.
The prescription system restricts access to medicines deemed too dangerous, addictive, or complex for unsupervised use.
Contrast with over-the-counter medications, available without a prescription: The pharmacist asked if I needed help finding any prescription medications.
- generic drugsUnbranded pharmaceutical equivalents
- pharmacy counterStation for collecting medications
- analgesicsDrugs that reduce pain
- antidepressantsMedications treating clinical despair
- antibioticsBacteria-destroying medicines
pharmacokinetics · FDA approval · anticonvulsants · diagnosis · off-label use · drug interaction · bronchodilators · statins · bioavailability · antipsychotics · active ingredients · side effects · brand-name drugs · expiration date · corticosteroids · dose · pills · mail order pharmacy
prescription medicationsover-the-counter medications
Medicines sold without prescription
prescription medicationshome remedies
Informal household cures
folk medicine · alternative medicine · herbal remedies · homeopathic remedies · traditional medicine
prescription medicationsillegal drugs
Outlawed intoxicating substances
illicit substances · controlled substances · street drugs · recreational drugs · narcotics