any drug or substance that calms a person.
A drug that reduces anxiety and agitation, such as Valium. See anxiolytics.
A medication used in the treatment of various psychoneurotic, neurotic, and psychotic disorders. Major tranquilizers are used for psychoses and include phenothiazines, thioxanthenes, and butyrophenones. Minor tranquilizers are used for treatment of neuroses and anxiety states and include certain barbiturates, the benzodiazepines, and other drugs.
a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity
a drug that acts on the central nervous system and is used to calm, decrease anxiety, or help a person to sleep
a drug that calms an anxious human or animal
a drug used to calm or pacify
Any of various drugs used to reduce tension or anxiety; an antianxiety agent.
a compound that calms or quiets an anxious patient.
Medication used to reduce tension and anxiety.
A drug used to reduce tension or anxiety and to treat psychotic states.
A medication that produces a calming effect, relieving tension and anxiety.
A depressant drug that slows down the central nervous system. “Downers.” Used in combination with alcohol, the de-pressant effects of both drugs are intensified, sometimes resulting in coma or death.
Calms a person without clouding mental function.
A medication that relieves anxiety.
a drug used to reduce anxiety and tension. Tranquilizers may be used during childbirth to help calm an anxious mother.
A drug that reduces anxiety and agitation. See antianxiety drug.
