medicating

Example Sentences

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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

California officials in mid-February detailed their strategy for the next chapter of the pandemic, laying out a seven-part plan dubbed SMARTER, for shots, masks, awareness, readiness, testing, education and “Rx,” or medicating with anti-COVID drugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2022

When the principal threatens to get Child Services involved with Robin’s case, Theo is willing to try anything to keep from medicating his son into an appropriate state of docility.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

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