Sadly pathetic user getting treatment (12)

I believe the answer is:

therapeutics

'treatment' is the definition.
(I know that treatment can be written as therapeutics)

'sadly pathetic user getting' is the wordplay.
'sadly' is an anagram indicator.
'getting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'pathetic'+'user'='patheticuser'
'patheticuser' is an anagram of 'THERAPEUTICS'.

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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