Topic
Tranquilizer
About: Tranquilizer is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 391 publications have been published within this topic receiving 5585 citations. The topic is also known as: tranquilizing drug & Ataractics.
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TL;DR: Valium is a safe, potent anxiolytic with pronounced muscle relaxant properties, and is the best known tranquilizer of its kind.
Abstract: For 10 years Valium® (2) has been the most frequently prescribed drug. It is a safe, potent anxiolytic with pronounced muscle relaxant properties, and is the best known tranquilizer of its kind. It contains, as active ingredient, diazepam (7-chloro-1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one).
443 citations
TL;DR: When the pharmacologic and clinical properties of the benzodiazepine sedative–anxioly tics were last reviewed comprehensively in 1973 and 1974, concern emerged among both prescribers and users of these medications about this continuously increasing use.
Abstract: When the pharmacologic and clinical properties of the benzodiazepine sedative–anxioly tics were last reviewed comprehensively in 1973 and 1974,1 2 3 their use in clinical practice was very extensive and increasing.4 5 6 It was pointed out that a continuation of the yearly rate of increase would lead to the total tranquilization of America by the turn of the century.7 During the mid-1970s, however, concern emerged among both prescribers and users of these medications about this continuously increasing use. Articles in scientific publications and the lay press suggested some apparently dramatic consequences and hazards of tranquilizer use.8 9 10 11 12 Although the validity of most such reports . . .
422 citations
TL;DR: The findings reinforce the importance of continued national monitoring based on the increases in prescription drug abuse and dependence, high co-occurrence with other substance use disorders, and underutilization of substance abuse treatment services.
212 citations
TL;DR: This review identified several areas for further research, including that of racially/ethnically diverse samples of adolescents, more focus on sedative and tranquilizer use, and longitudinal research to examine temporal patterns in NMUPM and other illicit drug use, delinquency, and substance abuse and dependence.
183 citations
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30 Dec 2008TL;DR: In The Age of Anxiety, historian Andrea Tone provides a comprehensive account of the rise of America's prescription drug culture through the lens of the authors' complicated relationship with tranquilizers.
Abstract: Drugs for anxiety are a billion-dollar business in the United States Yet in 1955, when the prescription tranquilizer Miltown became available, pharmaceutical executives worried that there was no market In The Age of Anxiety, historian Andrea Tone provides a comprehensive account of the rise of America's prescription drug culture through the lens of our complicated relationship with tranquilizers
176 citations
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| 2025 | 4 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2022 | 26 |
| 2021 | 18 |
| 2020 | 8 |