Five months ago, he said, his doctor began treating him with Prozac, a drug widely prescribed to treat depression.

A variety of drugs are widely prescribed to lower cholesterol and high blood pressure, two problems that increase the risk of heart attacks.

We didn't know how aspirin worked for over 100 years, yet it was widely prescribed.

Antibiotics have been used to treat acne for over 30 years and are still widely prescribed.

Drugs such as gabapentin have been widely prescribed for the off-label use of pain control.

Many promising drugs have shown serious problems once they became widely prescribed.

It was widely prescribed before 1971 as a safeguard against miscarriage, not for morning sickness.

But serious possible side effects that were never apparent in clinical trials surfaced quickly when the drug was prescribed widely.

The drugs are widely prescribed by general practitioners, who do not have the same training in depression and treatment as psychiatrists.

It has become the most widely prescribed of all fertility drugs.