Administration of an agent to reduce anxiety (8)

I believe the answer is:

sedation

(Other definitions for sedation that I've seen before include "The administering of sleep-inducing drugs" , "Effect of calming drug" , "State of drug-induced calm" , "Calming with drugs" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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