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Orders can be discontinued whether or not they are active.  This is necessary, because we cannot assume that the computer will always know about all active prescriptions.  For example, if a patient shows up to clinic already taking a prescription that is not in the computer records and you want them to stop, it's helpful to be able to explicitly write a DISCONTINUE order for that medication even though it's not an active order.  The workaround of writing for the medication and then immediately discontinuing is not viable, since it could imply that were ordering the medication for the patient at some point.