Sentence examples for nonmedically from high-quality English sources.

• The vast number of nonmedically qualified health staff, upon whom the health-care system greatly depends, includes both full-time and part-time workers.

• Other researchers have found even higher rates: a 2002 study at a small college found that more than thirty-five per cent of the students had used prescription stimulants nonmedically in the previous year.

• Other drugs commonly used nonmedically to alter mood are barbiturates, opioids (e.g., heroin), cocaine, amphetamines, hallucinogens such as LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), marijuana, and tobacco.

• Primary health care in the developed countries is usually the province of a medically qualified physician; in the developing countries first contact care is often provided by nonmedically qualified personnel.

• For long-term abusers (those persons who had used the drugs nonmedically for at least 200 days), the most-common means of obtaining the drugs was by prescription or by getting the drugs for free from friends or family.

• In many parts of the world, particularly in developing countries, people get their primary health care, or first-contact care, where available at all, from nonmedically qualified personnel; these cadres of medical auxiliaries are being trained in increasing numbers to meet overwhelming needs among rapidly growing populations.