overprescribev.
/ˌəʊvəprᵻˈskrʌɪb/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊvərprəˈskraɪb/, /ˈˌoʊvərpərˈskraɪb/ transitive. To prescribe an excessive amount of (a drug); to prescribe (a drug or treatment) more often than is necessary. Also intransitive.
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1953 Times 31 Oct. 4/3 Many doctors admitted that since the introduction of the shilling prescription they often tended to over-prescribe to save the patient coming back for an extra shilling's worth.
1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xi. 205 In a recent survey of 55 physicians in the Boston area, 37 felt that their fellow physicians were overprescribing sedatives.
2001 Org. Style Nov. 44 Unless doctors stop overprescribing antibiotics..an arms race between humans and microbes might be all but impossible to win.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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