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overprescribe

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Definitions

  1. To prescribe (a drug) more frequently than appropriate.

Word origin

From over- + prescribe.

Used in a sentence

  • The drug maker Purdue Pharma has agreed […] to settle complaints that it encouraged physicians to overprescribe its painkiller OxyContin.

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