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"Private clinics are prescribing high potency cannabis for people with psychiatric disorders such as depression and PTSD," Prof Sir Robin Murray, former president of European Psychiatric Association, told the BBC.

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For many people, opioid addiction begins with prescribed pain pills, such as OxyContin, before they increase their consumption and eventually turn to illicit drugs such as heroin and fentanyl, an extremely powerful synthetic opioid.

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Most questions from the Republican senators focused on brush clearance, prescribed burns, evacuations and the allocation of state and local funds.

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In his closing submission to the tribunal, the nurses' barrister Niazi Fetto KC said the policy was "unjustifiably treated as sacrosanct" by managers and "prescribed the disadvantageous treatment of biological females".

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Antidepressants may be trending, but misconceptions about the commonly prescribed medications abound.

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