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- verb Present participle of
overmedicate .
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Examples
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She had a history of chronic pain, "overmedicating" and "doctor shopping" for prescription drugs, in which individuals seek multiple prescriptions from more than one doctor, sometimes by providing fake identification and symptoms.
JSOnline.com 2010
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L. Detwieler, 65, stole almost $1 million from her by overmedicating her and tricking her into allowing him to become her power of attorney.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Others have insisted that Americans are overmedicating themselves.
A Doctor Disagrees 2010
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I said that Michael is overmedicating and that I did not want to see this kind of a case develop, and in particular in the Anna Nicole case.
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HOLMES: Well, Brian, do you know, you say he was overmedicating, he was getting this stuff from somewhere.
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Tomorrow's premise, we are overmedicating our kids.
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Tonight's "Great Debate": Are we overmedicating our kids?
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MERDIZADEH: If the patient is smoking more than an ounce of week, they might be overmedicating themselves.
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Brain-monitor advocates have long claimed that the devices help doctors avoid overmedicating patients.
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The problem is that we ` re all stressed out in America, and our solution is overmedicating usually, and it is a deadly combination.
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