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nontherapeutic

nontherapeutic

English

Adjective

nontherapeutic (not comparable)

  1. Not therapeutic
  2. Unrelated to medical treatment
    • 1988 November 18, Eric Scigliano, “How to Win the War on Drugs”, in Chicago Reader:
      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.