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Edwin Edwards against racketeering charges, and Elvis Presley's doctor against charges of over-prescribing medication to the singer.
Watergate Prosecutor Neal Dies Stephen Miller 2010
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Doctors have been over-prescribing them, and patients have too often not been taking their full course, enabling tougher bacteria to survive and thrive.
Johann Hari: Factory Farming Is Manufacturing Superbugs -- and Endangering Us All Johann Hari 2011
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Doctors have been over-prescribing them, and patients have too often not been taking their full course, enabling tougher bacteria to survive and thrive.
Johann Hari: Factory Farming Is Manufacturing Superbugs -- and Endangering Us All Johann Hari 2011
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Doctors have been over-prescribing them, and patients have too often not been taking their full course, enabling tougher bacteria to survive and thrive.
Johann Hari: Factory Farming Is Manufacturing Superbugs -- and Endangering Us All Johann Hari 2011
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Doctors have been over-prescribing them, and patients have too often not been taking their full course, enabling tougher bacteria to survive and thrive.
Johann Hari: Factory Farming Is Manufacturing Superbugs -- and Endangering Us All Johann Hari 2011
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Doctors have been over-prescribing them, and patients have too often not been taking their full course, enabling tougher bacteria to survive and thrive.
Johann Hari: Factory Farming Is Manufacturing Superbugs -- and Endangering Us All Johann Hari 2011
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Doctors have been over-prescribing them, and patients have too often not been taking their full course, enabling tougher bacteria to survive and thrive.
Johann Hari: Factory Farming Is Manufacturing Superbugs -- and Endangering Us All Johann Hari 2011
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Some drug industry critics charge TV drug advertisements encourage over-prescribing of medications by emphasizing the benefits and minimizing the risks.
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Even psychiatrists, not known for their aversion to pharmacological solutions, think that doctors may be over-prescribing.
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LOS ANGELES — A prosecutor sprang a surprise claim Friday that Anna Nicole Smith was a co-conspirator in the actions that have brought her two doctors and lawyer-boyfriend to trial for over-prescribing and obtaining massive amounts of prescription drugs.
Anna Nicole Smith Part Of Conspiracy to Get Drugs: Prosecutors 2010
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