lifestyle drug

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:55:24AM -0700, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>
> i didn't find "lifestyle drug" in the recent ADS archives, nor in a
> google search for "lifestyle drug" in combination with "Nunberg" (geoff
> nunberg having written several times on "lifestyle").  frankel reports
> that the term "comes up frequently in the literature around modern
> pharmaceuticals" (p. 143).

OED published an entry for this about three years ago, defined
as "a drug used to treat a condition that is not (necessarily)
life-threatening but that has a significant impact on the
quality of life", and with a first quotation from 1982.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED