"Would it have been possible, when you called attention to the drugs that had been improperly prescribed, to administer an antidote-" "Objection," Reece called "He's suggesting that we poisoned the plaintiff."

Rusty and her birth family came to believe that a combination of antidepressants improperly prescribed by Dr. Saeed in the days before the tragedy was responsible for Andrea's violent, psychotic behavior.

"It was negligence or improperly prescribed," she said in a telephone interview.

And in the U.S., where antibiotics are thought to be improperly prescribed in almost one of every two cases, some 14,000 people die each year as a result of drug-resistant microbes, the report says.

For example, a claim that a doctor engaged in malpractice by prescribing a drug could result in summary judgment if the plaintiff failed to obtain expert testimony indicating that the drug was improperly prescribed.

Nevertheless, experts are concerned that antimicrobials may be prescribed improperly, creating drug-resistant H. pylori that would spread widely.

He was referring to a form of late-term abortion that the Administration has said was improperly prescribed in a Congressional measure.

Other studies have found there is insufficient evidence that the drugs are widely abused or improperly prescribed.