Which statement best describes diversion?

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Diversion means prescription drugs are redirected from the person they were prescribed for to someone else. It includes situations where a medication is given to individuals other than the original patient, such as sharing, selling, or distributing meds beyond the intended recipient. The statement that best describes diversion captures this exact idea: drugs going to people other than the person for whom they were originally prescribed. The other descriptions don’t fit diversion: keeping the drug with the same patient isn’t diversion, clinical trials involve a research context rather than misuse or transfer of prescribed meds, and drugs prescribed by a pharmacist miss the point since pharmacists don’t prescribe.