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Valium 25 years later // The debate remains: Is it boon or bane to mankind?
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taking Valium to relieve back pain. Valium was what former Security
Adviser Robert McFarlane (left) used to attempt suicide last year
after the Iran-contra scandal broke. It was Valium that McFarlane
and Lt. Col. Oliver North took with them to Iran in 1986.
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Its generic name is diazepam. It's from a class of synthetic
chemicals called benzodiazepines, and it's classified as a minor
tranquilizer. On the street, it's called a downer; in the
corporation office it's "Executive Excedrin"; on the prescription
pad it's Valium - from the Latin for "to ...
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