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- Anuja Jaiswal
- TNN Feb 06, 2026, 14:45 IST IST
Artificial Intelligence is making it easier for people to procure restricted drugs, from antibiotics to addictive pills and high-risk psychotropic compounds, raising serious concerns over patient safety, drug misuse and regulatory failure.
Alerted by a doctor who said one of his patients was taking antibiotics based on a fake prescription generated through AI, TOI launched an investigation to find out if such prescriptions could be convincingly created and used to buy medicine.

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