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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
medicate .
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Examples
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No country in the developed world diagnoses and medicates its children in numbers proportionate to the United States, and poor children in our country are given psychotropic drugs four times as often as middle class children.
Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D.: The Economic Disparity of Children's Mental Health Care Ph.D. Marilyn Wedge 2011
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No country in the developed world diagnoses and medicates its children in numbers proportionate to the United States, and poor children in our country are given psychotropic drugs four times as often as middle class children.
Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D.: The Economic Disparity of Children's Mental Health Care Ph.D. Marilyn Wedge 2011
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"Our results demonstrate that guilt medicates the impact of work contact on distress for women," the researchers wrote.
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The specialist radiates, operates and medicates, turning what should have killed us evolutionarily into "chronic conditions" that cost 19 percent of the GDP to control.
Francine Hardaway: Routine Maintenance: Health Care's Contract With America 2010
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Oliver 4:02 pm: Kris – yeah, I have an adult child 26 – bi polar who self medicates on alcohol constantly on my nerves about the money and writing thing.
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Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.
Archive 2007-01-01 ____Maggie 2007
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Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.
Nora Ephron on Reading ____Maggie 2007
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The woman who purges, as well as the veteran who self-medicates with alcohol, are both caught in the paradox that they have experienced a fundamental loss of control over their own lives, that they attempt to re-establish control in these highly circumscribed ways, and that even this "control" is lost as it becomes an obssessive ritual.
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He “medicates” with good, healthy food, and his eyesight and reflexes are good enough that he still drives–in Southern California traffic!
Preventative care: Not all it’s cracked up to be | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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If, during his youth, Bush medicated his Anxiety over his own inadequacies and shortcomings with drugs and alcohol, he medicates his current anxiety over his inadequacies as pResident in the White House through the bleating of how terrorists are out to get him, I mean, us, and through the beating of drums for wars, invasions, and occupations.
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