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• n  a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity

• Over the past nerve-rattling decade, millions of patients round the world have shooed the blues or relieved tension by swallowing Librium and Valium, the tranquilizers that are .
• Rumors floated through the music industry that the singer- songwriter's band, Nirvana, was breaking up; that Cobain, who had survived a tranquilizer-induced coma just six weeks .
• Coroners, who found lethal doses of a tranquilizer, a sleep-inducing drug, and a barbiturate in her body, ruled her death an apparent suicide.

• tranquillizer
• tranquilliser
• antianxiety agent
• ataractic drug
• ataractic agent
• ataractic

News & Articles

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• Authorities charge owner of escaped kangaroo
  LACOOCHEE, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities have charged the owner of a kangaroo that was captured in Pasco County when wildlife officers used a tranquilizer to stop the animal.
  June 10, 2013 - FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville
• Pasco County authorities charge owner of escaped kangaroo
  LACOOCHEE, Fla. (AP) - Authorities have charged the owner of a kangaroo that was captured in Pasco County when wildlife officers used a tranquilizer to stop the animal.
  June 9, 2013 - FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville
• Black bear in Suffolk caught and released
  SUFFOLK—A black bear spotted in Suffolk was shot with a tranquilizer gun and released Friday, according to local officials.        
  June 8, 2013 - Daily Press

Quotes

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• Paul Zaloom in New York Times
  In an interview with The Toronto Sun in 1996, Mr. Zaloom said the show's goal was not to be "a giant tranquilizer."
• Jay Leno in USA Today
  Did you see Dean's speech last night? Oh my God! Now I hear the cows in Iowa are afraid of getting mad Dean disease,Jay Leno said. "It's always a bad sign when at the end of your speech, your aide is shooting you with a tranquilizer gun."
• John Bolton in Huffington Post (blog)
  Former US Ambassador John Bolton, often a surrogate for Cheney's point of view, said of Palin, "She's been a hunter since birth. I just saw a picture of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin shooting a tiger with a tranquilizer gun. It would be...