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SEDATIVES AND HYPNOTICS

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 1965
Psychiatric Drugs & ...
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Use of psychotropic medications in adults with intellectual disability: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry (Print), 2023
Objective: This study presents the proportion of adults with intellectual disability using psychotropic medications including antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics, hypnotics and sedatives, and psychostimulants.
Menghuan Song   +5 more
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Does acute treatment with sedatives/hypnotics for anxiety in depressed patients affect suicide risk? A literature review.

Annals of clinical psychiatry : official journal of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists, 2008
BACKGROUND Anxiety (among several other symptoms) has been identified in one prospective study as associated with suicide risk in depressed patients early in treatment.
N. Youssef, C. Rich
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Sedative and Hypnotic Drugs

2020
Anxiety and insomnia are the most commonly prevalent problems worldwide. These conditions affect the psychiatric, psychosocial, and medical wellbeing. Pharmacological agents by exerting calming and depressive effect on the central nervous system reduce anxiety and also induce the onset and maintenance of sleep.
Arup Kumar Misra, Pankaj Sharma
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Anxiolytics and sedative/hypnotics dependence

British Journal of Addiction, 1991
AbstractAnxiolytics and sedative/hypnotics are commonly used drugs. Benzodiazepines have largely replaced barbiturate and non‐barbiturate anxiolytics and sedative/hypnotics as they are as effective and safer. Experiments in laboratory animals have shown that chronic administration of benzodiazepines tested to date can induce physical dependence.
Usoa E. Busto, Edward M. Sellers
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Neuropsychological impairment and exclusive abuse of sedatives or hypnotics.

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1980
In a group of 55 consecutively admitted patients who exclusively abused sedatives or hypnotics, neuropsychological performance was significantly lower and signs of intellectual impairment significantly more often diagnosed than in a matched control group
H. Bergman, S. Borg, L. Holm
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Sedative Hypnotics

2014
The sedative hypnotic drugs represent a variety of chemical agents that depress central nervous system activity. They have many clinical uses in medicine including treatment of anxiety and insomnia, epilepsy, as muscle relaxants, and for induction of anesthesia. Some members of the class also possess significant abuse potential and a hazard of overdose
Mark A. Oldham, Domenic A. Ciraulo
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The effect of controls on sedatives and hypnotics on their use for suicide.

Journal of Toxicology Clinical Toxicology, 1989
The requirement of prescriptions for sedatives and hypnotics in Japan led to a decrease in their use for suicide but did not lead to an increase in the use of other methods for suicide, suggesting that people did not switch methods for suicide as one ...
D. Lester, K. Abe
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Sedatives and Hypnotics

2018
Insomnia is a subjective complaint of poor sleep that may lead to problems with daytime functioning. Sedatives and hypnotics have been the treatments of choice for decades. Benzodiazepines have shown the most evidence for effective treatment. However, they have serious side effects which include falls, confusion, rebound insomnia, tolerance, and ...
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Sedative Hypnotics and Sleep

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1998
Complaints about sleep are prominent among geriatric patients. Insomnia is a prominent feature of many psychiatric and general medical conditions. The physiologic effects of aging and primary sleep disorders also contribute to insomnia, sleep pattern changes, daytime sleepiness, and dozing.
David G. Folks, William J. Burke
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