Nontherapeutic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not therapeutic not-comparable
  2. 2
    Unrelated to medical treatment not-comparable

    "But the notorious British heroin "epidemic" was nothing next to the entirely bootleg U. S. epidemic that occurred at the same time; in 1967 the Home Office counted 1,290 "nontherapeutic" addicts."

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"But the notorious British heroin "epidemic" was nothing next to the entirely bootleg U. S. epidemic that occurred at the same time; in 1967 the Home Office counted 1,290 "nontherapeutic" addicts."

Etymology

From non- + therapeutic.

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