Word: valium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When she was 19, newly separated from her law-student husband, she tried to kill herself. She put her head in a gas oven, but her aunt pulled her out. Since then she has drunk a can of Drano, slashed her wrists, taken an overdose of Valium and driven her Volvo into the Pacific. Finally, at 27, she has written a "choreopoem" titled For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf (TIME, June 14). She felt it would be criticized as "too emotional, too colored and too female." Instead, it is the sleeper...
...Warren O. Wacker, director of the University Health Services said yesterday that Harvard doctors have no written policy governing Valium and Librium prescriptions, but that "they don't throw it around...
...Harvard Medical School psychiatrist warned a national science conference Thursday that there is a grave danger in the growing medical tendency to prescribe Valium and Librium tranquilizers "to save the doctor time and avoid the reality of a patient's emotional problems...
That recommendation alone is enough for many people in this Valium-saturated age, and the TM organization can scarcely keep up with those seeking nirvana by the numbers. Some 30,000 are signing up every month?more than three times as many as a year ago. There are now 370 TM centers around the country, and around 6,000 TM teachers...
...Schlieder and Borschette opened an investigation into pricing policies of Adams' employer, Hoffmann-La Roche & Co., the giant Basle-based pharmaceutical company. The EEC was curious as to why there were wide country-to-country variances in prices for livestock vitamins and two popular Roche tranquilizers, Librium and Valium. Officials suspected Roche of violating several articles of the Treaty of Rome, which governs trade between Common Market countries. If so, the company would also be in violation of a separate trade agreement between the EEC and Switzerland, which is not a member of the Common Market...