Major Tranquilizers include phenothiazines, indoles, thioxanthenes, butyrophenones, piperazine compounds, and piperidine compounds. Trade names include drugs such as Thorazine, Haldol, Clozaril and Risperdal.
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Tranquilizers are drugs used to treat anxiety or problems with sleep. They have a calming effect by depressing the nervous system in a way similar to alcohol. Tranquilizers are among the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications.
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Tranquilizers act as depressants to the central nervous system and are used to calm, induce sleep, or decrease anxiety. This drug is injected or swallowed in a pill form. ... TOXIC EFFECTS; If tranquilizers are used in combination with other drugs, overdose or death could occur. SIDE EFFECTS...
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Some people experience a paradoxical reaction to these drugs and can become agitated or aggressive. Using Prescription sedatives and tranquilizers with other substances - particularly alcohol - can slow breathing, or slow both the heart and respiration, and possibly lead to death.
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We used the following criteria: numbers of defined daily doses (DDDs) per annum, diagnoses for which they were prescribed, patient age, specialist medical training of the prescribing physician, and indicators that neuroleptics were used instead of other psychotropic drugs such as minor tranquilizers.
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Because tranquilizers slow down normal brain activity and produce a calming or drowsy effect, they are among the most common drugs prescribed to patients suffering from insomnia. Insomniacs are patients who either have trouble falling asleep or cannot fall asleep at all.
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List of Anesthetic, Analgesic and Tranquilizer Drugs Frequently Used With the Common Laboratory Species. 4. Rossoff, I.S. (1994). Handbook of Veterinary Drugs and Chemicals, A Compendium for Research and Clinical Use, 2nd edition, Pharmatox Publishing Co., Taylorville, IL. 5. Kohn, D.F., S.K. Wixson, W.J. White,
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