The safety margin for a particular drug is based on the idea that
A. toxic doses will typically be larger than therapeutic doses.
B. most drugs cause toxicity problems only when combined with other drugs.
C. we need to determine an LD50 using human volunteers.
D. we should only prescribe drugs that are not toxic even at high doses.
A
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