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A chemical nap button, because reasoning with the furious rarely scales.
means A drug that calms agitation or induces sedation by slowing down central nervous system activity.
from Built in English from 'tranquil' — calm, still — which traces back to Latin 'tranquillus,' likely a blend of 'trans' (across) and a root related to 'quies' (rest, quiet), the same source as 'quiet' and 'acquiesce.' The '-izer' suffix is the usual English move for naming an agent that makes something so: a tranquilizer is literally a 'calm-maker.' The word picked up its modern pharmaceutical sense in the 20th century, once chemists started bottling stillness.
- dart origin
- developed for zoo vets before human psychiatry borrowed it
- not sleep
- calms nerves without necessarily inducing actual sleep
- two tribes
- minor ones ease anxiety, major ones treat psychosis
- name irony
- tranquil comes from calm, yet overdose is anything but