Long‐term treatment with benzodiazepines: Theoretical, ideological and practical aspects
作者:
Adam Nagy,
期刊:
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
(WILEY Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 76,
issue S335
页码: 47-55
ISSN:0001-690X
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1987.tb07748.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: Anxiety disorders;benzodiazepines;short‐term treatment;long‐term treatment
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTThe prevalence of anxiety disorders in a psychiatric sense is 5–10%. If all available data are summed up, it seems evident that about half of these disorders have a prolonged, often chronic course, and thus require some form of long‐term or continuous treatment. Accomplishment of long‐term treatment will often be prevented by a general fear of dependence and abuse, risk factors that have been strongly emphasized. General restrictivity has also been urged regarding the dosage level, often resulting in a sub‐optimal treatment, more harmful than beneficial to the patient. The prescription figures for anxiolytics in relation to the prevalence and course of anxiety disorders do not suggest an unreasonably high prescription rate, on the contrary, the prescribed amount would not be sufficient for treating more than 2.5 % of the pop
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