How to Use self-medicate in a Sentence

self-medicate

verb
  • And so, the next best thing is to self-medicate.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Smith couldn’t sleep and began to self-medicate.
    — Andrew Callahan, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Many of these drugs are available online for those wishing to self-medicate.
    — WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And be careful about self-medicating to get to sleep, Brown says.
    — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
  • But experts warn that self-medicating in this way can backfire.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Frances is at home, self-medicating and snapping at the servants.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2026
  • He self-medicated with alcohol and and dabbled in pills a bit.
    — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Many former patients self-medicated with drugs and alcohol and wound up on the street.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Many former patients self-medicated with drugs and alcohol and wound up on the street.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Observers have long suspected that chimpanzees use plants to self-medicate.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
  • On her own, Sheila began skipping her drugs and self-medicating with cannabis and cocaine.
    — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • So she self-medicated with cranberry juice, water and prayer.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • All those years of self-medicating, watching Rachel Maddow with a glass of white wine or a beer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • But others suppressed their feelings, self-medicated with drugs or alcohol, or just left.
    — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
  • His patients were allowed to self-medicate before a procedure and were offered wine in the waiting room.
    — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Cidambi frequently sees patients self-medicating to succeed at work.
    — Arianne Cohen, Fortune, 13 May 2023
  • In an interview, Boyd said her mother’s experience drove her to self-medicate with drugs.
    — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • As in heart racing, breaking out in a cold sweat, and having to self-medicate with a large Dairy Queen chocolate dipped ice cream cone scary.
    — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The facility believed his past behavior stemmed from his attempts to self-medicate his troubles.
    — Alex Heigl, People.com, 16 May 2025
  • Garth, who went to the facility to learn how to stop self-medicating in harmful ways, and Facinelli are now friendly co-parents.
    — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Young people experimenting and self-medicating with drugs are nothing new.
    — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
  • Rowley encourages those who are self-medicating to seek medical advice.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 2 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • That can lead to funny results when asking it to come up with a cake recipe, but those same inaccuracies can prove dangerous when someone uses them to self-medicate.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025

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