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  Sedative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A sedative is a drug that depresses the central nervous system (CNS), which causes calmness, relaxation, reduction of anxiety, sleepiness, slowed breathing, slurred speech, staggering gait, poor judgment, and slow, uncertain reflexes.
Sedatives may be referred to as tranquilizers, depressants, anxiolytics, soporifics, sleeping pills, downers, or sedative-hypnotics.
Karen Anne Quinlan collapsed into a coma after swallowing alcohol and tranquilizers at a party in 1975.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tranquilizer   (640 words)

  
 Mindbending Software Inc. - Tranquilizer
Tranquilizer forces your kid not too move or shout or even talk with their friends when they play their favorite computer games.
After 1 hour of training with Tranquilizer the machine is their new friend, and they sit calm in front of the monitor starring in it and try not to move the hand too much while moving the joystick and pressing the fire buttons.
Tranquilizer is the ideal product for everyone, imaging a world of peace and tranquility, kids which don’t run around all day and just speak when it is really necessary and if so they whisper.
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 AllRefer.com - tranquilizer (Pharmacology) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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.
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.
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 tranquilizers: Characteristics of Primary Tranquilizer Treatment Admissions, 2002; SAMHSA,Office of Applied Studies
Tranquilizers are a class of central nervous depressant drugs commonly prescribed for anxiety or insomnia.
Among the additional 32,800 admissions which reported tranquilizers as a secondary or tertiary substance of abuse in 2002, opiates (46%) and alcohol (30%) were the most common primary substances of abuse.
Primary tranquilizer admissions were most frequent in the South (40%) and least frequent in the West (12%) and Midwest (15%).
oas.samhsa.gov /2k5/tranquilizerTX/tranquilizerTX.cfm   (252 words)

  
 Slashphone.com - Tranquilizer for Smartphones 1.0 - mobile phone reviews, news, community
Tranquilizer recreates the relaxing and calming sounds of nature.
Use Tranquilizer to induce a restful sleep, block annoying noises, improve concentration during study or work and assist in meditation.
Tranquilizer includes the following sounds that are instinctively soothing and calming to the ears and minds of humans of all ages.
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The use of a tranquilizer device attached to a foothold trap jaw was described by Balser in 1965.
However, many of these tranquilizers have a low level of biological activity, and may not be available from producers for more than 5 to 10 years; 2) Third and fourth generation tranquilizers have been available for 20 years or less.
A tranquilizer trap device has been proposed for attachment to foothold traps, snares and live traps to tranquilize animals to reduce the possibility of trap injuries.
wildlifedamage.unl.edu /handbook/Chapters/elgpch27.doc   (1835 words)

  
 Tranquilizer definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
Tranquilizer: In pharmacology, a drug that calms and relieves anxiety.
Tranquillizers range in potency from mild to major, with increasing levels of drowsiness occurring as potency increases.
Most tranquillizers are potentially addictive, particularly those in the benzodiazepine family.
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 Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients: Vitamin B-3 Does Not Cure Tranquilizer Psychoses
The first psychiatrist to point out that tardive dyskinesia was caused by tranquilizers was almost totally ostracized for several years after his first report appeared.
The drug companies certainly will not find it advantageous to refer to this major problem induced by their favorite drugs, and psychiatrists who have been nurtured and raised on the idea that these are the only drugs will find it very difficult to ever change their point of view.
The tranquilizer psychosis is a mixture of the original psychosis under partial control combined with the toxic effect of these drugs.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_2001_April/ai_72297177   (1245 words)

  
 Herbal Tranquilizer Antidepressant Formula
The natural ingredients of this herbal tranquilizer formula work very well as an antidepressant in connection with one another for lifting spirits, decreasing "doom & gloom", melancholy, apathy, silent brooding and plain old depression.
Corydalis is mildly sedative and has a tranquilizing effect, and is used for mood disorders and emotional disturbances.
John's Wort - the premier herbal tranquilizer is widely known as an antidepressant for mild to moderate depression.
www.femhealth.com /HerbalTranquilizer.html   (693 words)

  
 Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Cambridge University Press
She stared at the tranquil surface of the water.
The dogs were tranquillized with a dart gun and taken to a shelter.
She was on tranquillizers for a long time after her son died.
dictionary.cambridge.org /results.asp?dict=B&searchword=tranquilizer   (132 words)

  
 Healthfacts: For Insomniacs: A Way to Break Tranquilizer Addiction
Minor tranquilizers like Valium, Halcion, and Ativan, are frequently prescribed for insomnia.
These tranquilizers come from a drug class called benzodiazepines which includes over a dozen different brand names.
They were encouraged to cut usage by half during the second week, tapering off slowly by end of the next four weeks.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0815/is_1999_Dec/ai_58124046   (738 words)

  
 Reports Show Surge in Prescription Tranquilizer Abuse
The survey indicated that from 1992 to 2000 the number of new tranquilizer and sedative abusers increased by more than 125 percent.
Tranquilizers and other sedatives are categorized as central nervous system (CNS) depressants and have a high potential for abuse.
There were 32,800 additional treatment admissions where tranquilizers were the second or third drug of abuse.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/8/emw275427.htm   (595 words)

  
 Terre Thaemlitz : Tranquilizer - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
This album is an artifact of the post-rave ambient era typified by groups like the Orb, filled with evocative synth washes mixed with sounds of nature and bits of tribal percussion.
It might sound a bit naïve to ears weaned on electronic music made with powerful computer software, but Tranquilizer is not without its charms, and it shows Thaemlitz' deft touch with mood and texture.
Thaemlitz' career path is marked by restless experimentation, but Tranquilizer is merely a cozy and pleasant place for a layover.
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 TIME Asia Magazine: India's Little Helper -- Jul. 22, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The little yellow pill is Alprax, a generic tranquilizer and antianxiety medication that is fast becoming the drug of choice among India's more prosperous classes.
In the U.K., illegal possession of tranquilizers containing benzodiazepine is a crime punishable by up to two years in jail.
Despite the tranquilizer's well-known history overseas, perfectly healthy and otherwise conservative Indians are gobbling Al blissfully unaware of the risks.
www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020722-320805,00.html   (921 words)

  
 Study: Video game better than tranquilizer at calming children before surgery - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
A doctor in Newark, New Jersey, found that children who are allowed to play with a Game Boy in the operating room are less anxious than those who get a tranquilizer, have a toy or hold their parents' hand.
Doctor Anu Patel got the idea after noticing a friend's seven-year-old was so absorbed with his Game Boy at a restaurant that he ignored the adults and the food at his table.
She says the findings could be helpful because many parents don't want their kids to have tranquilizers.
www.gamedev.net /community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=288235&whichpage=1&   (223 words)

  
 Tranquilizer ends cage rage of dog in cross-country relay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
One dog in the "doggie relay" created to transport an autistic boy's pets to his new home in Arizona was tranquilized yesterday morning after becoming aggressive with a volunteer driver.
Donations to help pay for gasoline, a rental car and hotel stays can be made at autismlink.com or by calling 412-377-8778.
The Kuehns were giving the dogs up for adoption because airlines said they couldn't take them due to high temperatures in the cargo areas, but Webster and others volunteered to drive Trikzy and Daisy to the family's new home.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05211/546148.stm   (239 words)

  
 tranquilizer on Encyclopedia.com
TRANQUILIZER [tranquilizer] drug whose action calms the central nervous system, decreasing emotional agitation without impairing alertness.
In one of the National Parks of South Africa, a game warden shoots a tranquilizer dart at a rhino that has strayed out of the boundary of the reservation and thus could fall victim of poach (PAR31454)
Earth Explorer 02-01-1995 After subduing a caribou with a tranquilizer gun, wildlife biologist Noreen Walsh places a radio collar on the animal.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/t1/tranquil.asp   (706 words)

  
 The Tranquilizer Trap
This coming Sunday, BBC News Panorama will broadcast, in live stream, a very important show on the mis-prescription of tranquilizers and the negative effects of these drugs which disable millions of people world wide.
Shelley Jofre investigates the specter of tranquillizer dependency, and questions why, despite strict guidelines on their prescription, people in Britain are still prescribed them long-term.
Seventeen and a half million benzodiazepine tranquillizer prescriptions were issued by GPs in 1999 and it is estimated that around one million patients are now hooked on the drugs.
www.namiscc.org /newsletters/Sept01/bbc.htm   (449 words)

  
 WOAI: San Antonio News - Gorilla Attack: Police Clashed with Zoo Staff; Tranquilizer Jammed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Police urged zoo weapons experts to shoot the gorilla as they were trying to quietly approach the animal.
Also, as the senior zoo veterinarian tried to deal with a malfunctioning tranquilizer gun and reload a second one, he had to stop to answer questions from a series of officers who rushed to the scene.
Rich Buickerood, the zoo's director, said some confusion resulted from a general 911 call going out to emergency operators before the zoo could sound its "code red alert," an internal alarm used for animal escapes.
www.woai.com /news/local/story.aspx?content_id=52794D2B-96EA-412E-80BE-0ABDA265861A   (667 words)

  
 tranquilizer
Tranquilizing drugs differ from hypnotic drugs such as
, which appeared on the market in 1952, was the first tranquilizer to be used in modern Western medicine.
chlorpromazine - chlorpromazine, one of a group of tranquilizing drugs called phenothiazines that are useful in...
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 Cat Shot Through Eye With Dart Tranquilizer and Lives (HMB/Gross photo alert)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A stray cat was shot with a tranquilizer dart recently and then left to roam a Kansas City neighborhood.
Aylward reported that the resident never expected that the cat would be shot with a 7-inch metal tranquilizer dart, only to leave the animal to roam around for a week.
I called the Colorado division of wildlife officer to determine the legality of having a tranquilizer gun.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/760394/posts   (620 words)

  
 Pre-surgery Game Boy a tranquilizer alternative
Patel said the findings could be helpful because many parents do not want tranquilizers given to their children.
But on a standard, 100- point scale for measuring preoperative anxiety, the tranquilizer group jumped 7.5 points and the parents-only group 17.5 points.
Shani Willis, whose 10-year-old daughter, Nykia, had a cyst removed at the Newark hospital Tuesday, said the girl was nervous until she got a Game Boy.
www.ocregister.com /ocr/2004/12/10/sections/news/focus_health/article_339051.php   (616 words)

  
 Thaemlitz: Tranquilizer
Note: Strangely enough, the track "Tranquilizer" is not on this album, but can be found on Comatonse.000 and the compilation Plug In + Turn On x.2.
De leur prècieux sang d'écrituer n'ait une mare qui pour moi est un urinoir.
And when the day is over, let them rest their heads in the clouds and once again find beauty in it all.
www.comatonse.com /thaemlitz/tranquilizer.html   (160 words)

  
 PCP
COMMON NAMES: amoeba angel dust, angel hair, animal tranquilizer, `CJ, Cadillac, crystal, crystal joints, cyclones, DOA (on arrival), dust, elephant tranquilizer, goon, hog, horse tranquilizer, K1, killer weed (when combined with cannabis).
This is no time to go rummaging through the medicine cabinet for common tranquilizers or sedatives.
Unfortunately, the gold sometimes turns -out to be tarnished metal :since the user has often purchased a potentially un pleasant or dangerous dose of PCP.
www.drugtext.org /library/books/recreationaldrugs/pcp.htm   (1516 words)

  
 EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Tranquilizer Darts?
I was reading it as, roll above 23, you negate the poison, roll above 17, you are only partially affected, for both primary and secondary damage, rather than the 23 for primary and 17 for secondary.
Well, I do like the Nauseated condition for a trank rather than disabled, since after one round of disabled, the affected person/creature would be at -1 hp, but I prefer Takyris' increment method of making saves, so you do not have to wait so many rounds before possibly becoming unconscious.
This tranquilizer basically weakens the body so you can't move, and makes your brain go to sleep so you can't perceive things very clearly.
www.enworld.org /printthread.php?t=63097   (3413 words)

  
 Wholesale Goods, LLC: Tranquilizer Darts
We do not provide ANY solution for tranquilizing your animal.
Manufacturers of these fine products is Pneu Dart, Inc. To read more about tranquilizer solution, weight of animals, and more, click here.
Type 'P' disposable darts are.50 caliber and were designed to provide a convenient, accurate, inexpensive long range missile for use on small as well as large animals.
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 Herbal Mood Enhancer Antidepressant Tranquilizer
It can also improve endurance under stress and is effective as an appetite suppressant.
Both Corydalis and Kava Kava act as analgesics and tranquilizers.
John's Wort is widely known as an antidepressant for mild to moderate depression.
www.superbherbs.com /happymoodenhancer.html   (196 words)

  
 Overdose of Horse Tranquilizer Cause of Attorney's Death   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Overdose of Horse Tranquilizer Cause of Attorney's Death
In an afternoon press conference on Friday, San Joaquin County authorities said that attorney Larry McNabney died from an overdose of horse tranquilizer.
The body of the 53-year-old McNabney was found in a shallow grave in a vineyard near Linden on February 5th.
www.news10.net /storyfull.asp?id=970   (274 words)

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