I can't do anything about the former but I've tried to prescribe sleeping pills.

I told Dad about it and he prescribed sleeping pills.

The easiest thing to do is to prescribe pills to someone.

Your doctor may prescribe sleeping pills for a limited time to help you fall asleep.

In severe cases, your doctor may prescribe pills or give you a shot to stop the itching.

If the cream doesn't work, your doctor can prescribe pills that will kill the fungus.

She asks him why he would give prescribe pills to Mike, knowing that he's an addict.

Although in some cases the pills prescribed are hardly more than placebos, they will have taken on almost magical power for the patient.

So why forbid doctors to prescribe lethal pills that could allow patients to control how and when they die?

For cases of more serious impetigo, a doctor may also prescribe antibiotic pills.