overmedication

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ medication.

Noun

overmedication (countable and uncountable, plural overmedications)

1. (medicine) Excessive medicating; overuse of medication
   • 2008 January 15, Jane E. Brody, “A Stable Life, Despite Persistent Dizziness”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     This can result from dehydration, abnormal heart rhythms, overmedication with blood pressure drugs and disorders of the autonomic nervous system.