Word: equanil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...savor Brach candy, Gulden's Mustard and Chef Boy-ar-Dee foods, to rub on Meet and Aero Shave, to wash their clothes with Woolite, to battle their bugs with Black Flag, to treat their ills with Dristan, Anacin and Bi-So-Dol, to keep their cool with Equanil? Even the most ardent shoppers might be hard put to answer because for all the effort it puts into making household names of its more than 90 brands, American Home Products Corp. cares little about plugging its own corporate identity...
...only the latest addition to American Home's highly diverse collection of scores of bottled, boxed, wrapped and canned products. Founded 42 years ago in a merger of a group of drug companies, American Home soon moved beyond the medicine cabinet. Though ethical drugs, ranging from antibiotics to Equanil to Sabin polio vaccine, account for 35% of sales, and proprietary drugs supply another 17%, American Home now reaches into such diverse lines as kitchenware and candy...
...York City and adjacent Nassau County, said Haddad, buy meprobamate (Miltown, Equanil) for $18.90 per 1,000, while Georgia's Fulton County (Atlanta) pays $62.40. New York City buys tetracycline at $25.95 a 1,000, but Chicago pays $50, Fulton County $95, while New York's Onondaga County (Syracuse) pays $90 for a slightly different form. The District of Columbia, buying through the Veterans Administration, equals New York's low prices in most cases and betters them in some. The armed forces do at least as well, buying in still greater quantities through the Defense Supply Agency...
...drug without suffering the agonies of withdrawal. They have since discovered that there are lots of non-narcotic drugs that can lead to addiction and similar withdrawal sickness as well. Long-term use of barbiturates will do it. So will the so-called "minor tranquilizers" like meprobamate (Miltown or Equanil) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium), and the stimulant amphetamines ("bennies" or "goofballs"). Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Medical Director Joseph Sadusk told the A.M.A. that non-narcotic drug habituation has grown so widely that it has become a big business in the U.S. and has attracted...
When meprobamate, best known by one of its trade names as Miltown, hit the tranquilizer market in 1955, it became a runaway bestseller because it seemed to do its work with a minimum of undesirable side effects. Now, Miltown (also marketed as Equanil) is in for a letdown. It is dropped from the U.S. Pharmacopeia new edition, which becomes effective Sept...