a benzodiazepine medication used to treat anxiety, muscle spasms, and seizures
coined 1963 from diazepine (the chemical structure) + -am suffix, marketed as Valium
Diazepam is better known by its brand name Valium - it was so popular in the 1960s that it became synonymous with suburban housewife culture.
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