Word: miltown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising agency and stops at a branch of First National City Bank of New York. If he sneezes in the wintry damp, he pulls out a Kleenex. If his boss needles him, he calms down with a Miltown. Relaxing in the evening, he puffs an R. J. Reynolds Reyno menthol cigarette, listens to RCA, Columbia or Capitol records. At bedtime, he fastens his door with a lock made by BKS, a Yale & Towne subsidiary that is the continent's largest lock producer...
...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...
Behind this action lies a growing disillusionment with Miltown on the part of many doctors. Some doubt that it has any more tranquilizing effect than a dummy sugar pill; others think that it is really a mild sedative that works no better than older and cheaper drugs, such as the barbiturates. A few physicians have reported that in some patients Miltown may cause a true addiction, followed by withdrawal symptoms like those of narcotics users "kicking the habit...
...Miltown will still be available for doctors to prescribe as they see fit. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is contemplating no action against it. But the U.S. Pharmacopeia privately prepared by an independent committee of physicians and pharmacists, is the most prestigious of the doctor's reference books on drugs...