Word: valium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chemical equivalents of brand-name drugs and deliver the same amount of medicine with the same speed into the bloodstream. Because of this change in the rules, industry experts predict that within a year or two, generic copies of perhaps 150 leading brand-name drugs will appear. They include Valium, a tranquilizer, Diabinese, a pill to control diabetes, and Motrin, a medicine for arthritis. Hemant Shah, a drug-industry specialist with Mabon, Nugent, a Wall Street investment firm, estimates that by 1987, 25% of all prescriptions will be filled with generic drugs, up from...
HOSPITALIZED. Liza Minnelli, 38, effervescent singer-actress; for treatment of alcohol and Valium problems; at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Minnelli's newly acknowledged difficulties evoke rueful comparisons with her mother, Judy Garland, who suffered from drug and alcohol addiction for much of her life...
Medications: Valium occasionally...
...clinic patients have less concrete causes for their suffering. For them, the first step often is to be weaned from whatever narcotics they have been taking for relief, substituting methadone if necessary and offering psychological counseling. Doctors tend to frown upon the use of narcotics and muscle relaxants like Valium because they may add to a pain sufferer's debilitation...
...fact, coke is believed to be the drug most abused among women, outstripping Valium, which has come under fairly strict controls since the mid-1970s, when it was the No. 1 prescription drug. Under pressure from drug-abuse experts, Valium's manufacturer, Hoffmann-La Roche, has dramatically cut production of the drug, and many doctors have stopped prescribing it for simple anxiety. In 1975, 60 million prescriptions for Valium were written in the U.S., compared with 25 million in 1983. Says McEneaney: "Since two out of three Valium prescriptions are written for women, presumably many females who cannot...