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Benzodiazepine dependence

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 1984
Dependence to benzodiazepines is difficult to induce in animals but has been induced by high doses in man. Case reports of benzodiazepine dependence are rare compared with the usage of these drugs, but provide no proper epidemiological framework for the estimation of risk.
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Benzodiazepines

2015
Benzodiazepines have been in clinical use since the 1960s. Benzodiazepines act through allosteric modulation of the GABAA receptor to enhance the activity of GABA, an inhibitory neurotransmitter, resulting in a slowing of neurotransmission and sedative and anxiolytic effects.
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Benzodiazepine and Non-Benzodiazepine Anxiolitics

Psychopathology, 1985
A review of anxiolytic drugs is presented, including ethyl alcohol, barbiturates, diphenylmethane derivatives, glycerol and propanediol derivatives, antipsychotics, and anti-depressants. Focus on the benzodiazepines and their metabolism and method of action follows.
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An opioid benzodiazepine

Nature, 1982
Although the benzodiazepines have been extensively investigated since their discovery about 20 years ago1, only recently have antagonists of the classical actions of benzodiazepines been described2. We have now discovered a class of benzodiazepines which have lost all affinity for benzodiazepine binding sites but which have moderate to high affinity ...
D, Römer   +9 more
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Benzodiazepines and alcohol

Journal of Psychiatric Research, 1990
The frequency and quantity of alcohol consumption is a major consideration in patients who need treatment with benzodiazepines. Alcohol affects the GABA-benzodiazepine-chloride ionophore complex and has an agonist-like action. Thus, additive interactions should be expected from combining alcohol with benzodiazepines. Furthermore, alcohol has clinically
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Benzodiazepines and behavior

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 1985
This article sets the background for the following series of articles on the behavioral actions of drugs acting at the GABA-benzodiazepine receptor complex. The articles provide detailed analyses of particular behaviors and emphasise the danger of interpreting all behavioral effects in terms of anxiety.
S E, File, S J, Cooper
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Opioids and Benzodiazepines

Critical Care Clinics, 1995
Most patients in the intensive care unit experience pain and anxiety, which are treated most commonly with an opioid or a benzodiazepine. These compounds are effective and have a well-established safety record. With the exception of associated respiratory depression, they have a relatively wide therapeutic window.
M J, Murray   +2 more
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Benzodiazepines in Schizophrenia

Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, 1996
Benzodiazepines have a checkered history in the United States; public and professional attitudes about them have ranged from their being wonder drugs in the 1970s to being virtually purged from many formularies as addictive and dangerous in the 1980s. The attitude today is that they are useful for specific indications.
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Benzodiazepines for schizophrenia

2007
Many people with schizophrenia do not achieve a satisfactory treatment response with ordinary antipsychotic drug treatment. In these cases, various add-on medications are used, among them benzodiazepines.To review the effects of benzodiazepines for the treatment of schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like psychoses.The reviewers searched the Cochrane ...
A, Volz   +3 more
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The History of Benzodiazepines

The Consultant Pharmacist, 2013
After more than 50 years of experience with benzodiazepines, the American health care system has a love-hate relationship with them. In 1955, Hoffmann-La Roche chemist Leo Sternbach serendipitously identified the first benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide (Librium).
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