Within a year, it was the best-selling drug in America, and by the close of the fifties one in every three prescriptions written in the United States was for meprobamate.

Others are the anxiety medicine meprobamate and the calcium channel blocking agent nimodipine, the sources said.

The drugs in his system also included the antidepressants fluoxetine and olanzapine; the tranquilizers diazepam and meprobamate, which are found in Valium and other medications; the cough-suppressant dextromethorphan; and the antihistamine diphenhydramine.

In a few cases in which I tried tranquilizing pills of the meprobamate type there was some slight improvement.

Others are the anxiety medicine meprobamate and the calcium channel blocking agent nimodipine, the sources said.