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temazepam

n. (context pharmaceutical drug English) A drug generally prescribed for the short-term treatment of sleeplessness.

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temazepam

n. a frequently prescribed benzodiazepine (trade name Restoril); takes effect slowly and lasts long enough to help those people who wake up frequently during the night [syn: Restoril]

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Temazepam

Temazepam (brand names Restoril and Normison, among others) is an intermediate-acting 3-hydroxy hypnotic of the benzodiazepine class of psychoactive drugs. It is the 3-hydroxy analogue of diazepam, and one of diazepam's primary active metabolites. Temazepam is approved for the short-term treatment of insomnia. In addition, temazepam has anxiolytic (antianxiety), anticonvulsant, and skeletal muscle relaxant properties.

Temazepam was patented in 1965 and went on sale in the United States in 1981.

Usage examples of "temazepam".

I would say that whoever did this took a look at Mr Murray, made a judgement on his condition, then took some morphine tablets and temazepam, ground them down with a mortar, formed a solution with boiling water, then later on, injected it.

In the end I swallowed two Temazepam and spent the night in a daze, seeing a squadron of policemen and joiners break down the walls with pickaxes before marching rhythmically round and round my bedroom.

Instead I took two Temazepams and fell asleep, draping myself dramatically across the bed.

The heroin, the cut coke, the Temazepam, the dihydrocodeine he had always refused, fobbing them off with small purchases of dope.