Sentence examples for were being prescribed from inspiring English sources

As a result, Americans were being prescribed opioids.

Kate Fallon, chief executive of the Association of Educational Psychologists, said medicines were being prescribed by "harassed paediatricians".

But he and others wondered if opioids were being prescribed when acetaminophen might have been a better choice.

And some of the unapproved drugs were being prescribed to infants as young as one month old.

Janet L. Benshoof, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, said the new rules were reminiscent of the Administration's 1983 effort to require family planning clinics to notify parents when contraceptives were being prescribed for minors.

By the end of 2011, after just over a year on the market, 17 percent of patients with atrial fibrillation were being prescribed Pradaxa, compared with 44 percent for warfarin, according to a study released in September.

One in six adults is being prescribed antidepressants.

How many children are being prescribed the drug is difficult to quantify from official data.

"There are too many seniors who cannot afford the drugs that are being prescribed," she said.

Some children are being prescribed asthma drugs which they do not need.

There may not be enough communication among multiple doctors about what drugs are being prescribed.