nontherapeutic
English edit
Etymology edit
non- + therapeutic
Adjective edit
nontherapeutic (not comparable)
- Not therapeutic
- Unrelated to medical treatment
- 1988 November 18, Eric Scigliano, “How to Win the War on Drugs”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- 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.