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Halcion

[hal-see-on]

Trademark.
  1. a benzodiazepine, used as a sleeping drug and as an anxiolytic.



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He loaded Wilson up on medications — lithium, Xanax, Halcion, among others.

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In the end, John Goodrich pleaded guilty to distribution of a controlled substance, Halcion, and a judge sentenced him to 90 days in jail and three years of probation.

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My wife had trouble falling asleep, and she was prescribed Halcion.

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Stone took anything and everything over the course of his life: peyote, quaaludes, smack, Ritalin, Halcion, benzodiazepines.

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He also became addicted to the sedative Halcion.

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