"take sedatives" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation in which a person takes a sedative (such as medication or a pill) to calm or relax them. For example, "If the stress of studying for exams gets to be too much, remember to take sedatives to help you stay relaxed."
Did he need, one reporter asked in jest, to take sedatives as preparation for his homecoming?
Those who are overweight, drink late at night or take sedatives are most susceptible.
Sleeping Beauty, about a student who agrees to take sedatives and lie naked and unconscious while ageing clients pat, paw and lick her, divided critics.
Some drink more to curb stress, use illegal drugs like cocaine to help them meet deadlines, or take sedatives like benzodiazepines to calm them so they can attend meetings "without having sweaty palms".
Amelia can hardly assert her authority to get Samuel to take sedatives: "I am the parent and you are the child, so take the pill!" In another scene, Samuel sleepwalks over to Amelia and tells her to "wake up".
The mid-life crisis cases use antidepressants and the old depressives take sedatives lulling themselves into that very long sleep.
Instead, most patients are untreated or take sedative hypnotics for years without addressing the underlying causes of their insomnia and despite troublesome side effects [ 7].
She remembers taking sedatives to calm her fears of a nuclear holocaust.
Many took sedatives, which Iraqi troops use to control their panic.
He also shows how S.S.R.I.-related anxiety and jitters were minimized for this research by ignoring the fact that many of the patients studied were also taking sedatives to control those symptoms.
"It's just that I don't want to have a walking wife who's in zombieland, you know?" He was taking things a day at a time, and taking sedatives.
