pill mill

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00:54 Feb 4, 2011
English to Japanese 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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5【形】大量の薬を処方する
Miyuki Ueno


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【形】大量の薬を処方する


Definition from Drug Addiction Treatment:
"pill mill" は強力な薬物(覚せい剤に分類されるような薬)を医学的根拠もなく不適切に処方する医師、クリニック、薬局を表現する時に捜査現場で使われる用語。

Example sentence(s):
  • 大量の薬を処方するクリニックに規模の大小は無関係だが、捜査官によれば、個人開業のペインクリニックを装うケースが増えて来ているという。 - CBS NEWS  
  • スコット知事はフロリダ州で大量の薬を処方している者を追放しようとしている。 - Palm Beach Post News  

Explanation:
鎮痛剤バイコディン、向精神薬ザナックスなどが人気であるらしい。

http://www.pillmillmonitor.com/ より
Miyuki Ueno
Japan
Local time: 21:04
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
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