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You tear your ACL, he prescribes you 20 years of staring silently out a window.

And so doctors begin to sort of prescribe them off-label.

Purging was a common medical treatment, but it certainly wasn't prescribed to make room for more fish gut sauce.

Psychiatrists who identify it in young children may now prescribe mood stabilizers, which in some cases can be the right treatment, but may have negative consequences—especially for those who don’t need them.