overprescribe
verbEtymology From over- + prescribe.
1
To prescribe (a drug) more frequently than appropriate.
- The drug maker Purdue Pharma has agreed […] to settle complaints that it encouraged physicians to overprescribe its painkiller OxyContin.2007 May 9, The Associated Press, “Painkiller’s Maker Settles Complaint”, in New York Times:
- Related terms
- overmedicate