overdelicate

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Plus, America’s overmedicated seniors, a new path to the middle class and Portugal’s best-kept secrets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

This starts with acknowledging people’s legitimate gripes with the system, like having been overmedicated during past hospital stints, discharged with nowhere to go or placed in dilapidated housing that felt more dangerous than the streets.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2022

Now living alone in a small town, divorced from Emily’s father in the traumatic wake of the trial, she’s an overmedicated, haunted husk who admits she’s unrecognizable.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2021

Nubia Escobar has since seen a geriatrician who concluded she was overmedicated.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2021

Bio-psychiatry “overreached, overpromised, overdiagnosed, overmedicated and compromised its principles.”

From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2019