Lowell is not shy about presenting himself as a poet on the edge of nervous collapse, someone who needed to be "tamed" by the tranquilliser of choice in the 50s.
This newfound demand for non-barbiturate tranquillisers dovetailed with Dr Leo Sternbach's 1957 discovery that benzodiazepines – a class of chemical he'd first synthesised decades earlier while trying to invent a new dye – could be used to treat anxiety with greater efficiency and less risk than barbiturates, the common tranquilliser of the time.
After two serious breakdowns, a number of sections and treatment ranging from major tranquillisers to 12 rounds of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), Heyes's positivity and drive are tremendously impressive.
Krymchantowski and Moreira [25] randomised 150 MOH outpatients (diagnosed according to the Silberstein Lipton criteria), who were moderate overusers of acute drugs (excluding opioids, barbiturates and tranquillisers), to a tapering course of prednisolone, regular naratriptan or no regular medication for 6 days, in addition to advice and rescue medication (indomethacin or chlorpromazine).
If it inspires visitors to think more about their surroundings, that can only be a good thing; but by reducing it to pure spectacle, a tranquilliser dart of sensory titillation, it's in danger of missing the bigger picture of what architecture actually is.
Even without the tranquilliser dart of a Sunday morning kick-off, there would still have been no inflamed rumbustiousness from the locals, who knew better than to expect a win against a good Second Division team.
A toxicology report found the designer had taken a "substantial" amount of cocaine and sleeping pills and also a smaller amount of tranquillisers before killing himself.
(The molecular receptors for GABA are the target of tranquillisers such as Valium).
Other countries resort to heavy doses of tranquillisers and other calming drugs.
He was put on all kinds of tranquillisers - 'liquid kosh', in Deborah's words.
