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Lifestyle Drug

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Lifestyle Drug
A prescription drug that allows its user to perform an activity ‘on demand’ or without consequences, ameliorate an imprudent binge, or modify effects of ageing
lifestyle drug
Popular health A prescription agent that allows its user to perform an activity 'on demand' or without consequences, ameliorate an imprudent binge, or modify effects of aging
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It seemed that these people were taking orlistat as a lifestyle drug - choosing to take it when they were eating foods higher in fat to reduce any weight gain or not taking it when going on holiday or out for a meal as they didn't want to experience the consequences of eating fatty foods.
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Remember: if it’s a documentary, the things said in it must be true – the more boring, the truer it is) In it, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, says, “What the big drug companies are doing now are concentrating on lifestyle drugs that can be marketed to vast numbers of people and the market can be easily expanded.
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But animal welfare activists have slammed the lifestyle drug as unnecessary.
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