nontherapeutic en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + therapeutic.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Not therapeutic
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(not-comparable) Unrelated to medical treatment
But the notorious British heroin "epidemic" was nothing next to the entirely bootleg U. S. epidemic that occurred at the same time; in 1967 the Home Office counted 1,290 "nontherapeutic" addicts.
1988 November 18, Eric Scigliano, “How to Win the War on Drugs”, in Chicago Reader: