Abstract
Drugs are simultaneously both the greatest aiel and hazard in the avian trade today, after the two major categories of husbandry and nutrition. Drugs, of which antibiotics are the most commonly employed, are both widely used and abused. Antibiotics, cortisone compounds, chemotherapeutics and cardiac drugs are responsible for many animals and humans being alive that would have otherwise cliecl. Drugs are tools, they are not magical, nor are they...