addictophobia

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noun

bigotry or discrimination against addicts, especially drug addicts.

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Meanings

nounaddictophobia (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebigotry 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

From addicto- + -phobia.

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APA

addictophobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/addictophobia

MLA

“addictophobia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/addictophobia. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “addictophobia,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/addictophobia.

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