Benzodiazepine Dependence, Toxicity and Abuse: A Task Force Report of the American Psychiatric Association

by American Psychiatric Association (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $52.12

  In recent years, patients, lay publications, and consumer groups have expressed concern about whether benzodiazepines are overprescribed. Psychiatrists have raised questions about the potential for these medications -- especially some of the newer, high-potency, short half-life compounds -- to produce serious side effects as well as to induce drug dependence. Benzodiazepine Dependence, Toxicity, and Abuse provides clinicians with a review of the available information on the potential hazards of benzodiazepine treatment and offers suggestions for the rational prescription of these medications.