opiophobia
English
Etymology
opio- + -phobia
Noun
opiophobia (uncountable)
- 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, 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.
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