opiophobia

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English

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Etymology

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From opio- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

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opiophobia (uncountable)

  1. An aversion to prescribing opiates.
    • 2015 August 28, Darko Krnic et al., “National consumption of opioid and nonopioid analgesics in Croatia: 2007–2013”, in Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management[1], volume 11, →DOI:
      The rise of opiophobia among clinicians could be one explanation. Additionally, as pointed out previously, health care professionals are frequently not trained to prescribe opioid analgesics.