Word: diazepam
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...accidental discovery in the 1950s of the first synthetic tranquilizer, chlorpromazine (Thorazine), ushered in a gentler age of psychopharmacology. As other feel-good pills followed--Tofranil (imipramine) for depression, Miltown and Equanil (meprobamate) for psychosis, Valium (diazepam) for severe anxiety and lithium for manias--no mental illness seemed beyond their reach. Governments began emptying mental wards on the assumption that madness could be medicated--ignoring the fact that thousands of former inmates ended up living, and suffering, in the streets...