Word: fright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DEATH BY FRIGHT...
...After reviewing autopsy and police reports, tissue slides and hospital charts, the doctors report in Human Pathology that eleven of the 15 people had lesions in the heart similar to the ones that develop in experimental animals subjected to great stress. The conclusion: the victims had died of fright...
Students take the pills to suppress exam-time jitters, and actors pop them to relieve stage fright. Lonely housewives rely on them to get through empty days, and narcotics addicts use them to counter withdrawal symptoms. Valium, the ubiquitous tranquilizer that has been on the market for 17 years, has also benefited its developer, Switzerland's F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. It remains the world's largest selling prescription drug; in the U.S., which accounts for some 40% of Roche's $1.4 billion pharmaceutical sales, doctors write 44 million prescriptions for it each year...