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• n  a tranquilizer used to relieve anxiety and reduce tension and irritability
• a  anxiety relieving

• minor tranquilizer
• minor tranquillizer
• minor tranquilliser
• antianxiety drug
• anxiolytic drug

News & Articles

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• Anti-anxiety meds and sleeping pills linked to increased mortality risk
  Brooks Hays March 31 (UPI) -- Researchers have found a strong association between use of anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) drugs or hypnotic drugs (sleeping pills) and mortality.
  March 31, 2014 - UPI
• Anti-anxiety drugs, sleeping pills linked to risk of death
  Anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills have been linked to an increased risk of death, according to new research. The large study shows that several anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) drugs or hypnotic drugs (sleeping pills) are associated with a doubling in the risk of mortality. Although these findings are based on routine data and need to be interpreted cautiously, the researchers recommended that a ...
  March 31, 2014 - Science Daily