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drug of choice (drug of choice (law, narcotics): 1. The particular (usually illicit) substance that a suspect is addicted to. 2. The best-choice medication to treat a particular medical problem. WT. Clinical therapeutics A therapeutic that is regarded as being the best agent or first agent to use when treating a particular condition; DOCs usually have the lowest toxicity and the widest therapeutic range of the available agents. Cf Second-line drug. McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 Alexander Demidov); first-line drug (Streptomycin is no longer considered as a first line drug by ATS/IDSA/CDC because of high rates of resistance. WK Alexander Demidov); first-tier drug (efficacy, are the committee's first-tier drug treatment choices, each having more than two positive randomized, controlled trials specific for DPNP, according to the ... | assessed for a generic (first-tier) drug, and a somewhat higher but still modest copay (say, $10) was assessed for branded (second-tier) drugs; in some rare ... Alexander Demidov) |
