Definitions
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- noun a form of benzodiazepine (trade name Halcion) frequently prescribed as a sleeping pill; usually given to people who have trouble falling asleep
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Examples
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Oral conscious sedation, in which patients take a tranquillizer such as Halcion or Versed before the visit, puts them into a relaxed and sleepy state although they can still respond to the dentist's commands.
More Dentists Taking Pains to Win Back Fearful Patients Melinda Beck 2011
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Half a milligram of Halcion is 16 times stronger than 1 mg of Xanax.
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She knew full well that this stolid citizen of the “motherland” had never ingested so much as a microgram of Xanax, Prozac, or Halcion.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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She knew full well that this stolid citizen of the “motherland” had never ingested so much as a microgram of Xanax, Prozac, or Halcion.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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After my accident, when I was hospitalized for six weeks, I was given Halcion every night, and, man did it do the trick.
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They also accuse Upjohn of misreporting side-effects data to French and Japanese regulators, and they criticize the company for running an "ongoing campaign to discredit or neutralize any individual or publication reporting adverse information about Halcion."
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CLAIMED VINDICATION 17 MONTHS AGO, when the Food and Drug Administration decided not to pursue charges that the firm had concealed the hazards of its controversial sleeping pill, Halcion.
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The investigators contend that after Halcion hit the U.S. market in 1983, Upjohn misled the FDA about the significance of patients 'adverse reactions, which ranged from amnesia to paranoia.
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When tests failed to show enough drugs in the victim's system to make a case stick — Halcion, the sleeping pill Dahmer often used, dissipates quickly — the police dropped the matter.
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Like his father before him, who famously barfed on the Japanese after a bad reaction to Halcion, the 1980s version of a miracle sleep drug for those with bloody hands, you can bet your Tempurpedic mattress that Junior takes sleep aids.
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