It may also be wiser for practitioners to avoid the academic and legal term "toxic" while employing a much more malleable, subtle, and legally defensible description such as "elevated body burden" when interpreting the results of provocative urinary nonmedicinal substance (ICD 10 R 82.6) interpretation.
There is a lack of data on the misuse and supply of prescription drugs for nonmedicinal purposes and the scale of the problem needs to be established, the Home Affairs Select Committee has said.
From his observations of the nonmedicinal use of opium in China, which was his primary focus, he argued that "it is impossible to give up the habit at once with safety" and provided detailed instructions on a method of gradually reducing the level of opium using various tinctures (1850).
Despite these medically justified uses in China and the United States, however, many consumers in the United States used products containing Ephedra for nonmedicinal purposes such as weight loss, athletic performance enhancement, and energy boost (Triplett 2004).
I was far from having posttraumatic stress disorder or a PTSD experience, but I began to think of the PTSD patients I've treated using nonmedicinal approaches and the psychological toll that Sandy was bound to have on my community.
The key will be in raising consumer awareness about the efficacy of nonmedicinal products to manage certain health conditions, conditions for which they are already deeply involved in treating or preventing in many cases.