overmedicate

You may overmedicate yourself, resulting in serious negative side effects.

Caution should be taken not to overmedicate for teething.

You can unwittingly overmedicate a child.

She hates to overmedicate and she's very critical of doctors who prescribe pills like candy," Susie said.

Families need to balance their desire for improvement in this wrenching disease (and the drum-beating of the pharmaceutical companies) with the potential to overmedicate the fragile elderly.

Most determinations are made by physician-administrators or bureaucrats whose preference has been to overmedicate or send such "difficult-to-manage populations" to farms or under bridges on the outskirts of cit- ies.