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• a  purchasable without a doctor's prescription
  an over-the-counter cold remedy
• s  (of securities) not traded on a stock exchange
  over-the-counter stocks

• Food and Drug Administration may have ended a three-year health-policy dispute when it approved the "morning-after pill," Plan B, for over-the-counter sale yesterday.
• The nation's lively, loosely organized over-the-counter market is the only showcase for the securities of many companies that do not want or do not rate listing on the New York or .
• Why did the committee recommend eliminating acetaminophen-containing prescription drugs but not over-the-counter products? The members based their decision on the studies and data .

• nonprescription
• otc

• prescription

News & Articles

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• The Daughter Problem: Obama and Teen Girl Sex Panic
  Over-the-counter emergency contraception has just survived a fourteen-year slog through the federal bureaucracy, with the Justice Department announcing this week that it will finally allow people of all ages to purchase the pill without a prescription. Obama backed down when it looked like a lawsuit over the age restriction would ... More »
  June 13, 2013 - New York Magazine
• Morning-after pill available over the counter: Questions and answers
  A look at the medical, legal and political issues surrounding over-the-counter sales of backup birth control
  June 12, 2013 - The Oregonian
• Breaking: Feds to allow over-the-counter Plan B sales
  The Obama administration plans to comply with a court order to allow over-the-counter emergency contraceptive sales.
  June 11, 2013 - Washington Post