polypharmacy

1. (medicine) The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent disorders in the same (now especially elderly) patient, chiefly with connotations of indiscriminate or excessive prescription (involving overmedication and overprescription).Examples: "Critics denounced physicians as meddlesome, capriciously practising an often dangerous polypharmacy – a blunderbuss approach."; "Faced with wheezing, blue-faced patients, they felt they had to do something, and the approach they adopted was polypragmatism, or polypharmacy: they threw the medicine cabinet at the problem."uncountable