Pretty much every drug in the psychiatrist's arsenal was refined through animal research, so when dogs and cats take Prozac or Valium we are mistaken if we think of them as animals taking people drugs.
The 40 page mailings filled with Rothman's musings on everything from his daughter's "neurotic" cats to the merits of popping Valium before an airplane flight go to 300,000 customers.
December 22, 2008 All praise be Valium in Jesus' name: a CAT-scan needle biopsy sent me up a happy cul-de-sac, a detour not detached from consciousness but sweetly part — I heard machines and experts murmuring about me — a dulcet tube in which I lay secure and warm and thought creative thoughts, intensely so, as in my fading prime.
December 22, 2008 All praise be Valium in Jesus' name: a CAT-scan needle biopsy sent me up a happy cul-de-sac, a detour not detached from consciousness but sweetly part— I heard machines and experts murmuring about me— a dulcet tube in which I lay secure and warm and thought creative thoughts, intensely so, as in my fading prime.
by Sharon Levy December 22, 2008 All praise be Valium in Jesus' name: a CAT-scan needle biopsy sent me up a happy cul-de-sac, a detour not detached from consciousness but sweetly part — I heard machines and experts murmuring about me — a dulcet tube in which I lay secure and warm and thought creative thoughts, intensely so, as in my fading prime.
But what a… December 22, 2008 All praise be Valium in Jesus' name: a CAT-scan needle biopsy sent me up a happy cul-de-sac, a detour not detached from… With what stoic delicacy does Virginia creeper let go: the feeblest tug brings down a sheaf of leaves kite-high, as if to say, To live… December 22, 2008 Why go to Sunday school, though surlily, and not believe a bit of what was taught?
From time to time Justine Waddell, who plays Wood as an adult, affects the standard jittery, alley-cat manner that for years has stood for "studio controlled" and "Valium enriched" in movies like this one.
The cat comes too, roaming around the car until knocked out with half a valium; once at the campsite, the Morris Oxford becomes a bedroom.
But it's important to realize that alternative sedative medications such as Valium and Xanax, (benzodiazepines) can potentially produce idiosyncratic reactions--especially in cats--leading to hyperexcitability and violence, Nelson explains.
