TRANQUILIZER

drug whose action calms the central nervous system, decreasing emotional agitation without impairing alertness. Tranquilizing drugs differ from hypnotic drugs such as barbiturates in that they do not act on the brain's cortical areas but rather on its lower portions, e.g., the hypothalamus. They have been found helpful in the treatment of tension and mental illness. Reserpine, which appeared on the market in 1952, was the first tranquilizer to be used in modern Western medicine. Other drugs used as tranquilizers include the phenothiazines, meprobamate, certain muscle relaxants and anticonvulsants, and lithium carbonate. See also psychopharmacology.

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books on: Tranquilizer  - 641 results

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Drugs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Book by Mortimer Ostow; Basic Books, 1962
Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Psychopharmacology, Psychotherapy
...activity which, he claims, is reduced by tranquilizers Freyhan, 1960 . In one of the early...in humans by the administration of tranquilizers and energizers, it will be interesting...the effects of the drugs we now call tranquilizers upon patients in analysis, it occurred...
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New Directions in Attribution Research - Vol. 1
Book by John H. Harvey, Robert F. Kidd, William John Ickes; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1976
Subjects: Attribution (Social Psychology)
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The Evolution of Cooperation
Book by Robert Axelrod; Basic Books, 1984
Subjects: Conflict Management, Consensus (Social Sciences), Cooperativeness, Egoism, Games Of Strategy (Mathematics), Prisoner's Dilemma Game, Social Interaction
...this regard I shall called TESTER and TRANQUILIZER. TESTER was submitted by David Gladstein...would have gone better thereafter. TRANQUILIZER illustrates a more subtle way of taking...allowed to get away with something. TRANQUILIZER was submitted by Craig Feathers and...
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Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs
Book by Peter R. Breggin, David Cohen; Perseus Publishing, 2000
Subjects: Brain--Effect Of Drugs On--Popular Works, Psychotropic Drugs--Side Effects--Popular Works
...general neurotransmitter system as tranquilizers like Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, and...easily. Yet alcohol, much like the tranquilizers, has many negative effects on behavior...prescription for an antidepressant or tranquilizer. But your decision to accept medication...
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Treatment
Book by Silvano Arieti, Daniel X. Freedman, Jarl E. Dyrud; Basic Books, 1975
Subjects: Psychotherapy
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journal articles on: Tranquilizer  - 88 results

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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
...for 10 classes of drugs: sedatives, tranquilizers, opiates (other than heroin or methadone...criterion (i.e., alcohol, sedatives, tranquilizers, opioids, amphetamines, and cocaine...sedative use disorder (39.76 percent), and tranquilizer dependence (43.06 percent). With the...
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Alcoholics with and without Social Phobia: A Comparison of Substance Use and Psychiatric Variables
Journal article by Suzanne E. Thomas, Angelica K. Thevos, Carrie L. Randall; Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 60, 1999
Subjects: Alcoholics--Research, Alcoholism--Research, Phobias--Research
...Ratio tranquilizer use (lifetime...Form 90 tranquilizer use (lifetime...Miller, 1996 tranquilizer use (lifetime...
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Reciprocal Strategies for Large Groups
Journal article by Craig D. Parks; Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 1, 1997
Subjects: Social Psychology--Periodicals
...of the two-person game strategy "tranquilizer" (see Axelrod, 1984); the basic logic of tranquilizer is to lure others into a state of...1984) suggested that strategies like tranquilizer, which attempt to lull others into...
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Reasons for Drug Use among American Youth by Consumption Level, Gender, and Race/ethnicity: 1976-2005
Journal article by Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath, Patrick M. O'Malley, Lloyd D. Johnston; Journal of Drug Issues, Vol. 39, 2009
Subjects: Addictive behaviors, Behavior, Changes, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gender differences, Intervention, Secondary school students, Secondary schools, Studies
...marijuana, LSD, amphetamines, barbiturates, tranquilizers, cocaine, and narcotics other than...marijuana, LSD, amphetamines, barbiturates, tranquilizers, cocaine, heroin, and narcotics other...amphetamines, narcotics other than heroin, and tranquilizers. 2. Coping with negative affect...
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An Epidemiologic Analysis of Co-occurring Alcohol and Drug Use and Disorders: Findings from the National Epidemiologic Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC)
Journal article by Daniel Falk, Hsiao-Ye Yi., Susanne Hiller-Sturmhofel; Alcohol Research & Health, Vol. 31, 2008
Subjects: Alcoholism--Demographic aspects, Alcoholism--Environmental aspects, Alcoholism--Genetic aspects, Alcoholism--Research, Drug abuse--Demographic aspects, Drug abuse--Environmental aspects, Drug abuse--Genetic aspects, Drug abuse--Research, Mental disorders--Analysis, Mental illness--Analysis
...methadone), hallucinogens, amphetamines, tranquilizers, sedatives, heroin, (4) inhalants/solvents...classes of drugs (i.e., sedatives, tranquilizers, opioids, amphetamines, and cocaine...prescription drug use (i.e., opioid, sedative, tranquilizer, or stimulant use) was lowest among...
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magazine articles on: Tranquilizer  - 87 results

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The Dark Side of Psychiatric Drugs
Magazine article by Tanya Bibeau; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, May 1994
Subjects: Antidepressants--Adverse and side effects, Prozac (Medication)--Adverse and side effects, Psychotropic drugs--Adverse and side effects, Tranquilizing agents--Adverse and side effects, Tranquilizing drugs--Adverse and side effects
...The most dangerous of these are major tranquilizer, also known as neuroleptic (nerve-seizing...his own body. At the time the major tranquilizers were introduced, the lobotomy was touted...friends of the patient. The major tranquilizers were able to create a zombie state...
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Too Toxic to Handle
Magazine article by Dale Blumenthal; FDA Consumer, Vol. 24, April 1990
Subjects: Alkaloids--Health aspects, Kelly, Thomas--Investigations, Nicotine--Health aspects, United States. Food and Drug Administration--Investigations
...repackaging, and using illegally as an animal tranquilizer. It has never been approved by FDA...been involved in manufacturing the tranquilizer. Also present at the interview were...when the bulk product used to make the tranquilizer had been purchased, but that the center...
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Generic Valium
Magazine article; FDA Consumer, Vol. 19, November 1985
Subjects: Generic drugs, Mylan Laboratories Inc.--Product information, Parke-Davis Group--Product information, Pharmaceutical industry--Product information, United States. Food and Drug Administration--Laws, regulations and rules, Zenith Laboratories Inc.--Product information, valium (medication)--Manufacture
...Generic Valium. Three generic versions of the tranquilizer Valium, one of the nations most widely used prescription...for some time. 4. Valium (diazepam)--a sedative, tranquilizer and muscle relaxer, for which the three companies...
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No One Left to Track
Magazine article by Gabriel Rotello; The Advocate, April 14, 1998
Subjects: AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Reporting, Disease reporting, HIV testing--Ethical aspects, HIV tests--Ethical aspects
...FREAKING OUT. IN A MOMENT COLORED IN EQUAL parts loneliness, horniness, and Special K (also known as ketamine, an animal tranquilizer gaining popularity as a recreational drug), he had unsafe sex with someone he, had just met. On the sober morning after...
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American Bioscience Meets the American Dream: Here and Abroad, the Road to Self-Fulfillment Is Lined with Drugs and Surgery
Magazine article by Carl Elliott; The American Prospect, Vol. 14, June 2003
Subjects: Biological products industry--Social aspects, Psychotropic drugs--Social aspects, Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects
...drug called Miltown. Marketed as a "tranquilizer," Miltown was the first prescription...Americas favorite to Valium, another tranquilizer. By the early 1990s, another psychopharmacology...the 1950s and 60s, we also got "minor tranquilizers" such as Miltown and Valium. And when...
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Crime Stoppers Seeks Tips to Solve Tranquilizer Thefts
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 20, 2000
Crime Stoppers Seeks Tips to Solve Tranquilizer Thefts. Lake County Crime Stoppers seeks help in solving...may be connected. The target of the thefts is an animal tranquilizer known as ketamine hydrochloride, a hallucinogen to humans...
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WHA Misses Target with Competition
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 21, 2006
Subjects: Psychotropic drugs
...competitive events involving shooters using tranquilizer guns. I didnt like it from the start...founded the WHA. He believes he can make tranquilizer gun hunting an exciting, but "non-fatal...makes a statement, says the use of tranquilizer guns on wild game for the sake of winning...
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Angel Thought of the Day
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 16, 2004
Angel Thought of the Day. "Laughter is a tranquilizer without side effects." Anonymous For those born Sept. 18 to the 23rd, your Guardian Angel is Menadel. He helps his charges against...
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Just Lost in the Neighborhood: Bear Strays Too Close for Comfort
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 8, 2007
...A few wrong turns earned a confused black bear a dose of tranquilizer Monday after it scrambled up a tree in a south Eugene neigh...eaten for at least 30 days after it was darted because the tranquilizer can be harmful to humans. Wolfer gave the ursine interloper...
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Racing's New Peril
Newspaper article by Charles Fawcus; The Mirror (London, England), October 10, 1997
...with a tablet so small it may have been hidden in the hole inside a Polo mint. The drug involved, ACP, is a quick-acting tranquilizer, so the horses had to be hit at the course minutes before the off. Its the same drug which nobbled Bravefoot, Norwich and...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tranquilizer  - 2 results

 
 
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Tranquilizer
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TRANQUILIZER drug whose action calms the central nervous system , decreasing emotional...mental illness. Reserpine , which appeared on the market in 1952, was the first tranquilizer to be used in modern Western medicine. Other drugs used as tranquilizers include the phenothiazines , meprobamate , certain muscle relaxants and anticonvulsants...
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Reserpine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...effect also made it useful in psychiatry as a tranquilizer in the control of agitated psychotic patients...replaced in psychiatric use by the phenothiazine tranquilizers, although it is still used as an experimental...


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