Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporters who visited the university clinic complained of nervousness. anxiety and menstrual cramps. According to the reporters, they were given very brief examinations and prescribed a variety of medications, including a tranquilizer and a sleeping pill...
...sexpot sister Meg (Mary Beth Hurt) knows all about men ("I've had too many") but astonishingly little about herself. She rushed off to Hollywood because Old Granddaddy fostered the delusion that she could be a singing star. She became a pill-popping swinger and had a mental breakdown. The scar tissue shows in hard-boiled mannerisms and a terror of displaying "weakness...
Pharmacists have long languished near the bottom of the medical totem pole, contemptuously referred to by doctors and nurses as pill counters. But the term may no longer be justified. As the number of drugs has multiplied and human reactions to them have become more varied, pharmacists are beginning to assume a more important role, counseling patients on medication, monitoring drug therapy and sometimes even prescribing drugs...
...often a pre-emptive strike to steal a detractor's thunder. At times, the reader half hopes that Janet Malcolm will tell Green that he is too hard on himself, that he really is an intelligent, sympathetic man who is defending the faith in an age of pill popping and package deals. But she maintains an orthodox silence with rewarding results. Eventually Green's faults and peeves make his good qualities even more believable. Technically, he also serves as a vital navigational point in the author's explorations. She discusses a number of analytic approaches and comes...
...year-old girl in Belvidere, Ill., seemed to be just one more victim of an overdose of illegally obtained amphetamines. Police, finding the type of pills that allegedly killed her, thought they looked just like "black beauties," one of several forms in which amphetamines are sold. Analysis showed, however, that they were not amphetamines at all but a combination of substances commonly found in the cold remedies, diet and keep-awake pills sold over the counter in drugstores. The dead girl was a victim of the nation's latest drug danger: the "lookalike" pill...