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Word: mellaril (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug companies encourage skepticism among doctors and pharmacists about the quality of some generic products. Sandoz last year ran an ad in the American Druggist magazine for the tranquilizer Mellaril. It showed an elderly woman with an alarmed look on her face. In her hand was a vial that apparently contained a generic imitation of Mellaril. The text implied that a switch to a generic version of Mellaril could cause increased side effects, including symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease. The FDA said that the claims in the ad were false and ordered Sandoz to withdraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prescription for Cheap Drugs | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...face a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a $15,000 fine for both charges. On the day of the arrest, Palm Beach officials announced that Kennedy, 28, son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, had died after "multiple ingestion of cocaine, Demerol and a prescription sedative called Mellaril." Under Florida law, the accused coke dealers could also face a felony murder charge, though that is unlikely because of the difficulty of proving that the coke they allegedly sold was the same drug found in Kennedy's body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 28, 1984 | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...patient-slaves into cruel homosexual and sadistic acts. Perversely pushing and taunting their victims to the limit of their endurance, the guards would wait till their victims lashed out, only to be "kicked and stomped" to jellied unconsciousness or pumped full of a zombie's dosage of Thorazine or Mellaril. Medication to keep them out of the way, out of sight and out of mind; under control...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Under Control | 3/7/1980 | See Source »

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