''Webb v. United States'', 249 U.S. 96 (1919), was a

United States Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...

case in which the Court held that prescriptions of

narcotics The term narcotic (, from ancient Greek ναρκῶ ''narkō'', "to make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates ...

for maintenance treatment was not within the discretion of physicians and thus not privileged under the

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.Bonnie, R.J. et al. ''Criminal Law, Second Edition.'' Foundation Press, New York: 2004, p. 263

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