antidepressant

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Recent Examples of antidepressant Bichara alleges that officials failed to provide Collado with his antidepressant medication during the first two weeks of his detention. Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2025 Only non-drug – psychological and educational – interventions were studied, so results may not apply to antidepressant treatment. Paul McClure 09, New Atlas, 9 Aug. 2025 But rather than being reassured that there are some benefits to continuing antidepressant use, some pregnant people are encouraged to stop taking them. Sherri Gordon, Parents, 5 Aug. 2025 These omegas are anti-inflammatory powerhouses, known to reduce body and brain inflammation through a bunch of different pathways that researchers suspect may have antidepressant effects. Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for antidepressant
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Adjective
  • The draft, titled Development of Non-Opioid Analgesics for Chronic Pain, outlines steps to creating and seeking alternative chronic pain treatments amid the opioid epidemic, specifically the development of non-opioid analgesic products.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • An analgesic medication that works in the brain to reduce mild to moderate pain by increasing the body’s pain threshold and changing the way the body senses pain.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Schultz also slow-walked the trial use of the fast-acting anesthetic ketamine by paramedics, who were able to administer only four doses in six months under his stewardship.
    Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton saw the case as the perfect opportunity to test his anesthetic breathing apparatus in the hospital’s amphitheater.
    RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Antidepressant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antidepressant. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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