How to Use self-medicate in a Sentence

self-medicate

verb

• Many of these drugs are available online for those wishing to self-medicate.
  — WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
• Despite the pain in her life, she never self-medicated.
  — Lisa Depaulo, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
• On her own, Sheila began skipping her drugs and self-medicating with cannabis and cocaine.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Many former patients self-medicated with drugs and alcohol and wound up on the street.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Many former patients self-medicated with drugs and alcohol and wound up on the street.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• Many have used the drug as a way to get high, as a dietary supplement or to self-medicate for depression and anxiety.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 26 Jan. 2024
• Bees actively seek out drugs such as nicotine and caffeine when given the choice and even self-medicate with nicotine when sick.
  — Lars Chittka, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
• That life has not always been rosy for the actor, who suffers from bouts of severe depression and began using drugs in high school to self-medicate.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 8 May 2023
• My son did suffer from mental health issues and did self-medicate, but that’s no reason for someone to give him something with fentanyl.
  — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Observers have long suspected that chimpanzees use plants to self-medicate.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
• Youth deaths from drugs and suicides are at record levels as our kids grow up with fewer boundaries around substances, too many options to self-medicate, and intense pressure to fix the world’s problems.
  — Ed Ternan, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2023
• North Korea spends less on health care than any other country in the world (under $1 per person per year), and many citizens resort to self-medicating.
  — Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 3 Mar. 2020
• In an interview, Boyd said her mother’s experience drove her to self-medicate with drugs.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2024
• Meza was suffering from an undiagnosed PTSD and began to self-medicate with drugs.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2023
• So she self-medicated with cranberry juice, water and prayer.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
• But others suppressed their feelings, self-medicated with drugs or alcohol, or just left.
  — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
• Instead of self-medicating with tanning beds, which can do more harm than good, consider visiting your doctor.
  — Humeara Mohamed, refinery29.com, 15 July 2024
• Briceno had been diagnosed with mild schizophrenia as a teen and had a long history of self-medicating with drugs, his family said previously.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• That may be a part of why so many soothe their reeling brains with ketamine, self-medicate with psilocybin, or submit to an unwavering diet of blueberries between dunks in an ice bath.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Fortune, 30 July 2023
• Cidambi frequently sees patients self-medicating to succeed at work.
  — Arianne Cohen, Fortune, 13 May 2023
• Conventional treatments do not work for everyone, and many veterans turn to alcohol or drugs in an attempt to self-medicate.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
• In one especially tender moment, Josiah, a neighbor who self-medicates for salmonella with pills meant for cows, asks Navied where his family is from.
  — Kay Sohini, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• She self-medicated to offset her disillusionment with her life.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• Shame is a familiar sentiment to Sarah, an underachiever who self-medicates with alcohol.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• Young people experimenting and self-medicating with drugs are nothing new.
  — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
• Some of Musk’s associates connected his erratic behavior to efforts to self-medicate.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Marshall departed the group due to substance abuse issues in 2000, and Stapp also struggled with personal issues, including depression and problems with self-medicating, in the following years.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 18 July 2024
• Bottlenose dolphins in the northern Egyptian Red Sea rub against mucus-secreting gorgonian coral polyps to self-medicate, and Indonesian blood python harvesting is unsustainable.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2022
• The highly addictive painkiller — used legally in medical settings for traumatic injuries, egg retrievals and colonoscopies — has gripped a new generation looking to self-medicate or experiment with drugs.
  — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
• Ken’s wife, who is also Abby’s best college friend, self-medicates with Sancerre to manage the responsibilities of her children, her husband’s political aspirations and the award-winning azaleas in her perfectly kept garden.
  — Amanda Uhle, Washington Post, 27 June 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024