Sentence examples for depressant from inspiring English sources

Alcohol is a depressant; it depresses some negative feelings, which is why people use and abuse it, but it can also make despair bottom out.

These drugs, commonly used in larger doses as anaesthetics, are thought to work by enhancing the brain's sensitivity to a depressant neurotransmitter known as GABA that is naturally present there.

And the stockmarket bust, through the equity-wealth effect, has probably had an even greater depressant effect upon demand.

From the blood the alcohol is distributed to all parts of the body and has an especially pronounced effect on the brain, on which it exerts a depressant action.

It also is an emetic and a general depressant.

Alcohol greatly intensifies the depressant effect of barbiturates, and in the 1950s and '60s, barbiturates taken with alcohol became a common agent in suicide cases.

Dr Healy is well known for arguing that Prozac, an anti-depressant drug, raises the risk of suicide among depressives.

And yet Eli Lilly, the Indiana firm that makes Prozac, is infesting America's magazines with advertisements aimed at boosting public awareness of its $2.4 billion-a-year anti-depressant still further.In Europe such advertisements are illegal.

In many cases, patients get an anti-depressant for no obvious reason".

Don Grubin, a Newcastle psychiatrist, says that anti-depressant drugs and therapy seem to reduce the chance that a convict will offend again.

In the event, the mobile-telephone network uses only 66 satellites, but Dysprosium, the 66th element, sounds more like an anti-depressant than a technological marvel.Which is fitting.