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addictophobia

addictophobia noun: bigotry or discrimination against addicts, especially drug addicts.

Noun

addictophobia (uncountable)

  1. bigotry or discrimination against addicts, especially drug addicts.
    • AIDS is a sort of metaphor under which everything that's wrong with our society gets highlighted. When you drop AIDS in any one particular social system, you see the prejudice — to be specific, the homophobia and the addictophobia. You can see the weaknesses in the health care system.1988 December 4, Judy Harris, Larry Kessler, “Going Public”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 21, page 16

Origin of addictophobia

From addicto- + -phobia.

Questions about addictophobia

What does addictophobia mean?
Addictophobia means bigotry or discrimination against addicts, especially drug addicts.
What part of speech is addictophobia?
Addictophobia is a noun.

Words near addictophobia in the dictionary

  1. addictologic
  2. addictological
  3. addictologist
  4. addictologists
  5. addictology
  6. addictophobia
  7. addictovigilance
  8. addicts
  9. Addie
  10. addies
  11. Addilyn

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