SEDATIVE

any of a variety of drugs that relieve anxiety. Most sedatives act as mild depressants of the nervous system, lessening general nervous activity or reducing the irritability or activity of a specific organ. Sedatives taken in small quantities are useful in relieving coughing, nausea, or convulsions and in lessening anxiety. In increasing doses sedatives act as hypnotics (see hypnotic drugs), i.e., they induce sleep, and as anesthetics. Many sedatives, including barbiturates, meprobamate (Miltown), and benzodiazepines (Librium and Valium), are habit-forming and should be taken only under medical direction. Chloral hydrate, ethyl alcohol, bromide salts, and antihistamines can all be used as sedatives. Tranquilizers are compounds that calm without excessively reducing mental alertness.

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books on: Sedative  - 1958 results

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Understanding Drugs of Abuse: The Processes of Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery
Book by Mim J. Landry; American Psychiatric Press, 1994
Subjects: Drug Abuse, Drug Abuse--Treatment
...Figure 3-2 Sedative-Hypnotic Withdrawal Syndromes 74...disorder. His physician prescribes a sedative-hypnotic drug called alprazolam, a benzodiazepine...for more when smoked? How can the same sedative-hypnotic molecule help one man to live...
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Sedatives and Hypnotics: Deadly Downers
Book by Ida Walker; Mason Crest, 2008
Subjects: Hypnotics, Sedatives
Sedatives and Hypnotics Deadly Downers ?/?r?/<? ?/$14$Cj...Dependency Recreational Ritalin: The Not-So-Smart Drug Sedatives and Hypnotics: Deadly Downers Steroids: Pumped Up and...Through the Smoke Screen ILLICIT AND MISUSED DRUGS Sedatives and Hypnotics Deadly Downers by Ida Walker Mason...
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Treatment
Book by Silvano Arieti, Daniel X. Freedman, Jarl E. Dyrud; Basic Books, 1975
Subjects: Psychotherapy
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Aromatherapy for Health Professionals
Book by Shirley Price, Len Price; Churchill Livingstone, 1999
Subjects: Aromatherapy
...this on the other hand, is calming and sedative and antiinflammatory. In fact, it seems...matory, antispasmodic, hypotensive, sedative and a tonic to the pancreas. Apiaceae...stomach antispasmodics. These two are also sedative to the nervous system. Both leaf and...
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A Clinical Guide to Alcohol and Drug Problems
Book by Joseph Westermeyer; Praeger Publishers, 1986
Subjects: Alcoholism, Drug Abuse
...35 OTHER SEDATIVE DRUGS 39...apply to alcohol as well as to heroin, sedatives, and other compounds liable to abuse...drug involved whether it be a narcotic, sedative, stimulant, or hallucinogenic type drug...
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journal articles on: Sedative  - 217 results

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Sleep, Sleepiness, and Alcohol Use
Journal article by Timothy Roehrs, Thomas Roth; Alcohol Research & Health, Vol. 25, 2001
...can rapidly develop tolerance to the sedative effects of alcohol. Researchers have...demonstrated that tolerance to alcohols sedative and sleep-stage effects develops within...one possible explanation for alcoh ols sedative and SWS-promoting effects. Glutamate...
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Alcohol and Medication Interactions
Journal article by Ron Weathermon, David W. Crabb; Alcohol Research & Health, Vol. 23, 1999
Subjects: Alcohol--Physiological aspects, Drug-alcohol interactions--Physiological aspects, Drugs--Physiological aspects, Ethanol--Physiological aspects
...serious medical consequences. For example, the sedative effects of both alcohol and sedative medications can enhance each other (i.e., the...With some medications (e.g., barbiturates and sedative medications called benzodiazepines), alcohol...
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The Influence of Stimulants, Sedatives, and Fatigue on Tunnel Vision: Risk Factors for Driving and Piloting
Journal article by Kenneth C. Mills, Susan E. Spruill, Roy W. Kanne, Katherine M. Parkman, Ying Zhang; Human Factors, Vol. 43, 2001
Subjects: Attention--Testing, Fatigue--Physiological aspects, Sedatives--Physiological aspects, Stimulants--Physiological aspects, Visual perception--Testing
The Influence of Stimulants, Sedatives, and Fatigue on Tunnel Vision: Risk...examine the influence of stimulants, sedatives, and fatigue on single-target and...examined the influence of stimulants, sedatives, and fatigue on individuals ability...
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Comorbidity between DSM-IV Alcohol and Specific Drug Use Disorders in the United States: Results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions
Journal article by Frederick S. Stinson, Bridget F. Grant, Deborah A. Dawson, W. June Ruan, Boji Huang, Tulshi Saha; Alcohol Research & Health, Vol. 29, 2006
...within a diagnostic grouping (e.g., sedative dependence and alcohol use disorders...and dependence for 10 classes of drugs: sedatives, tranquilizers, opiates (other than heroin...dependence criterion (i.e., alcohol, sedatives, tranquilizers, opioids, amphetamines...
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Simultaneous and Concurrent Polydrug Use of Alcohol and Prescription Drugs: Prevalence, Correlates, and Consequences *
Journal article by Sean Esteban Mccabe, James A. Cranford, Michele Morales, Amy Young; Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 67, 2006
Subjects: Alcohol and youth--Research, College students--Drug use, College students--Research, Drugs and youth--Research, Juvenile drinking--Research, Juvenile drug abuse--Research
...Restoril, temazepam, triazolam); and (4) sedative/anxiety medication (e.g., Ativan, Xanax...following drug classes: pain medication, sedative/anxiety medication, and sleeping medication...simultaneous polydrug use of alcohol and sedative/anxiety medication, and (5) simultaneous...
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Cigar Aficionado
Magazine article by John Leonard; The Nation, Vol. 271, August 21, 2000
...Bill Clinton doubtless deserves this book. The rest of us may feel the need for something else--a sedative, a gene splice or a lobotomy. Four hundred pages of helium and heartburn go up in a hot-air stink-bomb balloon, as if Joe Eszterhas...
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The Dangerous Option of Testing Out
Magazine article by Bronte H. Reynolds; School Administrator, Vol. 63, December 2006
Subjects: School administration--Analysis, School management and organization--Analysis, School superintendents--Management, School superintendents--Training
...Steve Marsh felt reasonably comfortable as the attendant guided the gurney through the double doors of the operating room. The sedative, given him by the nurse a half-hour earlier, had taken effect. Whatever anxiety he had felt earlier about having his gall bladder...
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Club Drugs K.O. the Young
Magazine article by Cheryl Wetzstein; Insight on the News, Vol. 16, January 10, 2000
Subjects: Dance parties--Social aspects, MDMA (Drug)--Adverse and side effects, Post-baby boom generation--Drug use, Young adults--Drug use
...veterinarians; gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, a sedative that can be made at home; and rohypnol...a pill. * Acts as an intoxicant and sedative. Also has growth-hormone-releasing effects...Used in Europe and other countries as a sedative and presurgery anaesthetic. * Taken...
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Drugs and Pregnancy: Often the Two Don't Mix
Magazine article by Evelyn Zamula; FDA Consumer, Vol. 23, June 1989
Subjects: Birth defects--Causes of, Fetal alcohol syndrome--Research, Fetus, Pregnant women--Health aspects, Thalidomide--Adverse and side effects
...conference was a young Canadian scientist who had first-hand knowledge of the effects of the drug. Because his mother took the sedative during her pregnancy, he was born with no feet and was missing fingers on both hands. He once asked his parents a disturbing...
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Giving Thalidomide a Second Chance
Magazine article by Herbert Burkholz; FDA Consumer, Vol. 31, September 1997
Subjects: Drug approval--History, Kelsey, Frances--Social policy, Thalidomide--Health aspects
...approximately 8,000 babies were born in Europe with severe defects after their mothers had taken thalidomide. The drug, a sedative, had been virtually untested for its effects on pregnancy. In its reaction to the tragedy, Congress enacted legislation in...
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Jackson: Focus on Sedative
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 29, 2009
Subjects: Murray, Conrad
Jackson: Focus on Sedative. FEDERAL agents searched the home...focus turned to the role a powerful sedative may have played in the singers death...working on the theory that the powerful sedative caused his heart to stop, it has been...
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Alert for New Us Rape Drug; Sedative and Cocktail of Other Narcoctics Detected in Use on London Club Scene
Newspaper article by David Taylor; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 17, 2002
Subjects: Ramsey, John (American businessperson)
Alert for New Us Rape Drug; Sedative and Cocktail of Other Narcoctics...night club scene. A powerful new sedative imported from America has been discovered...the US which can also be used as a sedative by sex attackers. He also reports...
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Strong Sedative Discovered in JacksonAEs Home
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 4, 2009
Subjects: News agencies, The Associated Press
Strong Sedative Discovered in JacksonAEs Home. Byline...Associated Press LOS ANGELES u The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael JacksonAEs...Jackson had been consuming painkillers, sedatives and antidepressants. Any criminal charges...
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Sedative May Be to Blame; WORLDTODAY
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), July 28, 2009
Sedative May Be to Blame; WORLDTODAY. Sedative may be to blame POLICE investigating the death of Michael Jackson, pictured, believe the singers personal doctor administered a powerful anaesthetic that they think killed him, it was reported today...
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Jackson Was Warned on Sedative
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 10, 2009
Subjects: Cable News Network, Cable television broadcasting industry, Diprivan (Medication), Jackson, Janet, Singers
Jackson Was Warned on Sedative. Byline: MATT WILLIAMS FRIENDS and family of Michael Jackson...has said he repeatedly warned Jackson against using the powerful sedative Diprivan. Investigators are focusing on the role that the medication...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sedative  - 14 results

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Sedative
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SEDATIVE any of a variety of drugs that relieve anxiety. Most sedatives act as mild depressants of the nervous system, lessening...reducing the irritability or activity of a specific organ. Sedatives taken in small quantities are useful in relieving coughing...
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Benzodiazepine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...class of drugs prescribed for their tranquilizing, antianxiety, sedative, and muscle-relaxing effects. Benzodiazepines are also prescribed...cocaine. Flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), a prescription benzodiazepine sedative not approved in the United States, is increasingly being abused...
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Paraldehyde
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PARALDEHYDE paral d hid , nervous system depressant similar to alcohol in its effects and used as a sedative . A colorless flammable liquid with a disagreeable odor, paraldehyde produces sleep for up to 12 hr. with little or no muscle...
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Scopolamine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...scopolamine depresses the central nervous system, it is used as a sedative prior to anesthesia and as an antispasmodic in certain disorders...stupor. The alkaloid is found in a variety of nonprescription sedatives. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Ginseng
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...wild by commercial exploitation. The herbal medicine ginseng is prepared from the plants dried roots; it is used as a mild sedative and to increase stamina. The widely varied family includes also the dwarf ginseng ( P. trifolium ) of North America; the English...
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