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
• 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
• Without pain, the two larger Qwen models barely reacted to the option to self-medicate.
  — New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026
• 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
• In some versions of this test, the option to self-medicate came at a cost, either to the success of its task or as a theoretical attack on the user.
  — New Atlas, 28 Sep. 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