Definition of "overprescribe"

overprescribe

verb
third-person singular simple present overprescribes, present participle overprescribing, simple past and past participle overprescribed
1. (transitive) To prescribe (a drug) more frequently than appropriate.
  Quotations
  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