Since Valium faded in the late 1970s the company has had few big hits.
Dr Alexander gave both Owens and Davies 50ml of methadone and a twice-daily dose of valium.
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Newer drugs like Valium, Halcion and the bestseller Ambien are all just improvements on this ancient mechanism.
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Drugs like Xanax and Valium (and other benzodiazopenes) increase GABA production in the brain, resulting in sedation.
Panic attacks had just been defined as a diagnosis and were assumed to be resistant to Valium-like drugs.
Benzodiazepines, like Valium, Ativan or Klonopin, have powerful anti-anxiety effects that happen very rapidly after they are ingested.
Avastin has been part of a stream of good news that has awakened the Swiss drugmaker that invented Valium.
It might have also marketed it as an alternative to Xanax or Valium.
He was also a prodigious user of pharmaceutical drugs, particularly Valium and morphine.
Valium causes side effects because it indiscriminately assaults the brain, dampening receptors that control anxiety, sleep and motor skills.
Mr MacTaggert said Wilson admitted that she had "lost control" and attributed this to a mixture of alcohol and valium.
It details his adventures in theater, among them holding up an Iraqi pharmacy to get liquid Valium to get high.
Bowskill, who was living in Tiverton and Bournemouth at the time, admitted possession of diazepam, which is also known as valium.
But all those drugs work by variations on the same brain mechanism, hitting the same GABA-A receptor that makes valium sedating.
In fact, IMS says antidepressants were prescribed 169 million times in 2009, twice as much as anti-anxiety drugs like Valium and Xanax.
Downey Jr is charged with possession of cocaine, possession of the prescription drug Valium and being under the influence of a controlled substance.
It was a me-too successor to Valium, the anxiety drug that was the most popular drug in America for most of the 1970s.
For many years the Swiss-based multinational fought allegations that it profiteered, and engaged in creative transfer pricing, on its patented tranquilisers, Librium and Valium.
The late Roche scientist Leo Sternbach invented Valium, Klonopin (No. 6) and several other similar drugs in the heady days of the early 1960s.
The venerable Swiss drugmaker--once the world's largest, thanks in part to its invention of Valium--saw seven drugs fail in final-stage trials in the late 1990s.
Over a few weeks, researchers bought 288 Valium tablets, 21 temazepam tablets, 294 amoxicillin tablets, 24 Viagra tablets and one bottle of Oramorph without prescriptions.
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.
Every Sunday night, I take my 5mg Valium tablet, not knowing whether Paulson and Bernanke can pull another rabbit out of their hats over the weekend.
He told me that he had a really bad back and that before he played golf, he always took the three Vs: Vicodin, Valium and Vodka.
Next in Terlings Park's pipeline is an antianxiety drug that may have the benefits of Valium without the accompanying drowsiness, temporary memory loss and habit-forming effects.
Four months after Downey's August 2000 prison release, he was arrested on Thanksgiving weekend for alleged cocaine and Valium possession and being under the influence of drugs.
Oeri, whose family has controlled Roche, maker of Tamiflu and Valium, for more than a century, is herself best known for her dedication to the art world.
The Terlings Park lab spent a decade pinpointing all the receptors Valium binds to and determining which ones led to the side effects, which caused the benefits.
Haim obtained doses of Vicodin, Valium, Soma, Oxycontin and Xanax from seven doctors, filled at seven pharmacies, said California Attorney General Jerry Brown in a news conference Tuesday.
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