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Policymakers should try to avoid overmedicating or sedating economic expansions.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

In 2010, when the American Psychiatric Association proposed expanding the definition of depression to include grieving people, it provoked a backlash, feeding into a broader critique that mental health professionals were overdiagnosing and overmedicating patients.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

The Associated Press in 2009 reported that the Ceskas met with then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to discuss overmedicating foster children.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2019

Farmers grew accustomed to overmedicating livestock because a steady supply of antibiotics supposedly pre-empted infection and encouraged vigorous growth.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2016

For kids with more serious symptoms, experts are worried that undermedicating is a bigger risk than overmedicating.

From Time Magazine Archive