Valium

[ val-ee-uhm ]

Pharmacology, Trademark.

1. a brand of diazepam.

Valium

/ ˈvælɪəm /

noun

1. a brand of diazepam used as a tranquillizer See also benzodiazepine

valium

1. A common prescription tranquilizer; trademark for the drug diazepam.

Example Sentences

Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer which has caused chaos on the streets of Philadelphia, is now being found across the pond in bootleg codeine, tramadol, Valium and Xanax.

From Salon

By summer 2020, he was once again a wanted man after police seized 28 million Etizolam “street Valium” tablets at a pill factory in Kent.

From BBC

The measure — which would put abortion pills in the same category as Xanax, Ambien and Valium — contradicts the way the federal government classifies mifepristone and misoprostol.

From New York Times

Nitazenes have been found by a publicly funded testing lab in a range of drugs, including street heroin and black market pills which dealers had wrongly claimed contained anti-anxiety drugs, such as Xanax and Valium.

From BBC

Impaired by alcohol and Valium, they allege, she recklessly sped her Mercedes through a residential neighborhood, chasing her ex-Dodger boyfriend before killing two young boys in a crosswalk.

From Los Angeles Times