overmedicate

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ medicate.

Verb

overmedicate (third-person singular simple present overmedicates, present participle overmedicating, simple past and past participle overmedicated)

1. To medicate excessively
   • 2007 December 14, Joanne Kaufman, “Campaign on Childhood Mental Illness Succeeds at Being Provocative”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     "I thought the people we'd be arguing with are the people who believe psychiatric illness doesn't exist" or those who believe children are being overmedicated, he said.

Related terms

• overdiagnose
• overprescribe
• overtreat