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tranquillizer
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tranquillizer, tranquilliser (US), tranquilizer
a drug that calms a person without affecting clarity of consciousness


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Its message was subversive and ubiquitous, appearing in newspapers, magazines, radio interviews and TV talk shows and contending that frustrated women were suffering from "the problem with no name" and were treating it by downing tranquillizers "like cough drops.
The recommendation to place these tranquillizers under international control follows a year-long, drug-by-drug review by WHO of all benzodiazepines available commercially at the end of February 1983.
 
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