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tranquillizer

, tranquilliser (US), tranquilizer
a drug that calms a person without affecting clarity of consciousness
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However, the officials denied any "overdose" of the tranquillizer as the cause of death of the carnivore.
23, 2018, and was shot because the vet did not believe a tranquillizer dart was a safe option.
Our main goal was to interface individual tranquillizer use with the impact of individual characteristics and social environments while considering simultaneously different kinds of tranquillizer use (with and/or without medical prescription).
This allows for a comparison of the BZD sedative and BZD tranquillizer users with the unexposed population for men and women of different age groups as well as the calculation of relative risks adjusted for the age distribution of the comparison groups.
But she claimed that throughout the time she had been hooked on tranquillizers and did not realise what she was doing.
The findings are especially worrisome because certain drug combinations--such as opioid painkillers with benzodiazepine tranquillizers (e.g., Valium or Xanax)--increase risk of mortality.
The star, accused of punching Oksana Grigorieva, 40, in the face, texted her the next morning: "The tranquillizers only make me nuts."
WORCESTER - A 26-year-old Oxford man is to be arraigned Tuesday on drug charges after police allegedly seized tranquillizers from him Friday night, officials said.
Valium, one of the world's best known tranquillizers, has been prescribed for anxiety disorders since 1963.
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