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In the article, there is a misleading sentence and two parts have to be exchanged against each other as follows:

"As a general rule, over-the-counter drugs are those that treat a condition not necessarily requiring a doctor's care and have not been proven to meet safety standards required for prescription drugs".

In the current text, it was just the other way around.

Best regards Juergen Hahn hahnhome@t-online.de

• I agree confusing; both originally, as above, and as stands in article. Hope my edit is clear. -David Ruben^talk 17:10, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, not the Controlled Substances Act, is the law that declares certain drugs prescription drugs. The controlled substances act declares what substances are controlled substances. Making something a controlled substance does not automatically make it a prescription drug, and only a small minority of prescription drugs are also controlled substances. I edited the article to correct this.

[edit] Pricing of prescription drugs

I've just spent a very frustrating few minutes trying to find a simple comparison called something like "Prescription charges around the world". It doesn't seem to exist: any chance someone with the requisite knowledge could do something here? It would be very useful to know what the situation is in countries other than the USA and UK. Loganberry (Talk) 04:00, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

It should be noted that post-doctorate level psychologists are in fact allowed by law, in some states to prescribe. There is an unsupported claim by psychiatry that it is dangerous for other mental health specialists to prescribe because the current practice of psychiatry in the United States amounts to maintaining a guaranteed patient niche market through medication management alone. They then refer the patient for additional treatment for all other treatment. On average, US psychiatrist spend an average of 10-15 minutes "Personally" with their patients to write and or adjust prescriptions. The psychiatrist then also glean additional income from other healthcare professionals who are politically being blocked from gaining prescriptive authority, through such business tactics as office space rental and other inflated "administrative" costs. Dawn Webster

[edit] Legend drug

The term "legend drug" redirects to this article, but it is not explained in the article text. This term should be explained in the article if the redirect is truly appropriate, otherwise Legend drug should be its own article/stub. Mike Dillon 02:27, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Gew, can we get rid of the animated GIF? That's not cool. --AlanH 04:49, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Non NPOV

Under Regulations in UK there's a couple of passages about the HC2 certificate and means testing which doesn't appear to be entirely NPOV and somewhat opinionated and not entirely well written. Perhaps someone with a better knowledge of these matters could rectify? 82.10.65.30 14:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

The top link is dead... I'm just passing through, so I don't know what would be an appropriate replacement.

Keep up the good work!