glutethimide

(ɡluːˈtɛθɪˌmaɪd)

(Medicine) med a compound with hypnotic properties

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glutethimide - sedative (trade name Doriden) used to treat some sleep disorders

Doriden

depressant, downer, sedative, sedative drug - a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person

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During the 1950s and 1960s, a plethora of new psychoactive substances were registered to treat conditions such as anxiety and depression, including antipsychotics such as chlorpromazine, antidepressant (imipramine), and a range of sedative-hypnotics such as ethchlorvynol, chlormethiazole, meprobamate, methaqualone, and glutethimide. All these substances were subject to abuse and caused impairment of driving ability if taken in higher than normal doses.

Driving Under the Influence of Psychoactive Substances--A Historical Review

The medications mentioned prominently in 1976 included among others, Flurazepam, triazolam, chloral hydrate, amylobarbitone, methaqualone, glutethimide, pentobarbital, methyprylone, secobarbital, tryptophan, meprobamate, and the old standby, diphenhydramine.

Melatonin revisted

Described in Pizdet, his debut novel from 2002, Alexandru Vakulovski's experiences, with travka ('grass') in combination with various other narcotics-tramadol, ephedrine, glutethimide, prazepam, etc.-have not, it has to be said, found a wider audience.

Divergences (letter from Paris)

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