11.   Therapists cannot prescribe drugs as they are not necessarily medically qualified.

12.   I was prescribed drugs to control seizures.

13.   Nurses will be allowed to prescribe necessary drugs.

14.   Although team medical staffs say they are prescribing fewer drugs and monitoring their inventories, some players are finding other ways to get prescription painkillers.

15.   Also, older people are often treated by several doctors, who may not always know what other drugs have been prescribed.

16.   American children are also prescribed the drug for longer periods than children in other nations, the report says.

17.   Although no evidence of cancer was found, the doctor prescribed a drug that shrinks the prostate but has no apparent effect on cancer.

18.   An off-label use means the drug is prescribed for conditions or groups of patients not originally intended by the manufacturer or the Food and Drug Administration.

19.   And doctors are far too willing to prescribe the drugs, even when they know they will not be effective.

20.   And some of those salespeople tried to influence doctors to prescribe drugs for uses that were not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, those documents show.