opiophobia

English

Etymology

opio- +‎ -phobia

Noun

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.