medicating
Example Sentences
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Earlier this year, England's Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty said it would be a "societal failure" if medicating people for life was our only answer to obesity.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
There was a stigma associated with ADHD—such as that students who had it weren’t very bright—and they didn’t like the idea of medicating their children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
In 2018, a federal judge found that forcibly medicating children without the permission of their parents violated child welfare laws.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2024
This stands in stark contrast with medicating symptoms of mood disorders or using behavioral tools to change thinking and behaviors.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2022
What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
