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Sedative

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Sedative meaning

An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.

Example sentences (20)

However, at therapeutic doses, GHB reaches much higher concentrations in the brain and activates GABA B receptors, which are primarily responsible for its sedative effects. citation GHB's sedative effects are blocked by GABA B antagonists.

A number of prescription sedative-hypnotic drugs can cause hallucinations.

Dr Perry explained 'In a way having another alcoholic drink does normalize the brain a little, but that’s because it’s a sedative and you feel better initially.

Fischer is a slipped a sedative and all seven hook up to the shared dreaming apparatus.

However, many kratom users claim that lesser herb doses create stimulant-like products, and more significant quantities produce opioid- or sedative-like results.

Jurors at Preston Crown Court also convicted her of conspiring with a junior colleague, Charlotte Wilmot, 48, to administer a sedative to a third patient.

Nine mandates related to the administration of ketamine and other sedative drugs by Aurora Fire Rescue paramedics.

Paramedics arrived and injected McClain with ketamine, a sedative that was legal at the time to give to people showing erratic behavior.

Rising carbon dioxide levels onboard the may act as a sedative which sends the five trapped explorers to 'sleep', experts warned today.

She felt like she was floating thanks to the sedative, more waves, more buoyancy, but this time she didn’t mind so much.

The corps commander explained that the suspects gave a commercial motorcyclist beef jerky (kilishi) laced with sedative drug to eat and upon falling asleep, they made away with his motorcycle.

Then last month — a few weeks after the Sheriff’s Department admitted seeing signs of xylazine for at least four years — the UCLA researchers studying local street drugs confirmed finding the sedative in a sample of black tar heroin.

These hulking athletes could “dominate a 98-pound kid with ease,” Hilton wrote, and if the students resisted, they were injected with a syringe of sedative.

Tranq is the street name for Xylazine, an alpha-2 agonist which produces sedation and respiratory depression in ways similar to certain anesthetic and sedative agents.

Tussey said in a police report that Czichos was clearly intoxicated and that Czichos said he took a lot of Xanax, a prescription sedative that is commonly abused.

Alexandra also alleged that Roddy, whose real name is Rodrick Wayne Moore Jr., abused a sedative called Promethazine among other things.

Instead, a full canine unit managed by a vet, equipped with catchpoles, sedative dart guns and tasers will be deployed.

Need I mention that if the responsible officer is not satisfied with “pre-flight sedative” explanation, the animal will be euthanized and the carcass disposed of by incineration.

Officers put the monkey to sleep with a sedative dart before locking it away in a cage.

The victim claims that she was forced to consume a drink laced with some sedative substances and the accused then raped her, SP Arun Kumar had stated.