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American Academy of Family Physicians

Drugs - Therapeutic Substitution

See also:
Drug Identification
Pharmacists Dispensing Drugs - AAFP Legislative Stance
Drugs, Physician Dispensing
Drugs, Prescribing
Drug Samples, Physician Dispensing
Drug Testing and Selection
Drugs, Generic
The AAFP strongly opposes any legislative or regulatory effort at the state or federal level to permit therapeutic substitution, that is the substitution of a therapeutic alternate, a drug product containing a different pharmaceutical moiety but which is of the same therapeutic or pharmacologic class. (1988) (2008)