medicating

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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

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

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

“There might be some days I’m just eyeballing, making sure they’re doing okay and medicating them and running off to another patient. Sometimes I don’t have that personal connection, and I miss that,” Mead said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2021

What we call our root-and-branch reforms, of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms.

From Four American Leaders by Eliot, Charles William