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pill mill

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00:54 Feb 4, 2011
English to Catalan translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care
Additional field(s): Medical: Pharmaceuticals
English term or phrase: pill mill
Definition from Drug Addiction Treatment:
“Pill mill’ is a term used primarily by local and state investigators to describe a doctor, clinic, or pharmacy that is prescribing or dispensing powerful narcotics inappropriately or for non-medical reasons.

Example sentence(s):
  • His parents claim he obtained the pills after a visit to a "pill mill" -- storefronts that often provide powerful narcotics without thorough patient exams and usually on a cash-only basis. ABC News
  • City commissioners voted to approve a moratorium on "pill mills." Wesh.com
  • A Houston physician's license has been temporarily suspended for illegally operating a "pill mill" where thousands of prescriptions for addictive drugs were written — often to those suspected of being recruited by drug crews, investigators said. Chron
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Summary of translations provided
5distribució il·legal de fàrmacs
Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz


  

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distribució il·legal de fàrmacs


Definition from own experience or research:
La forma pill mill es tracta d'una forma argòtica en anglès (literalment "fàbrica de pastilles").

En català us recomanem una traducció descriptiva del tipus distribució il·legal de fàrmacs.

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Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz
Spain
Local time: 07:03
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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