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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 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, 1989The 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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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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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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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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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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Field dependence in patients with exclusive abuse of hypnotics or sedatives.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1980A group of 47 patients exclusively abusing sedatives-hypnotics (not alcohol or hard drugs) has been studied with regard to field dependence as assessed by a rod-and-frame test. In comparison to a pairwise matched control group from the general population
L. Holm, H. Bergman, S. Borg
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Sedative-Hypnotics and Anxiolytics
2010The sedative-hypnotics and anxiolytics are central nervous system depressants that have a wide array of uses in psychiatry, neurology, anesthesiology, and general medicine. These medications include the benzodiazepines, the new-generation non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, the barbiturates, and other agents.
Bachaar Arnaout +3 more
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Addiction on prescribed sedative-hypnotics
Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 1996This paper reviews the conceptualization of addiction on prescribed sedative-hypnotics medications; its evolution, occurrence, characteristics and validity. Such addictive behaviour is often concurrent with severe anxiety and/or personality disorders and follows a dismal course.
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Anxiolytics and Sedative-Hypnotics
2014Anxiolytics (synonym, tranquillizers) are antianxiety drugs that are used in the pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders. Anxiety is rather untypical for psychiatric disorders in that it may occur as both a normal emotional and a pathological state.
Andreas Warnke, Manfred Gerlach
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British Journal of Addiction, 1989
Despite some neuropsychological improvement in a group of 30 patients who had been hospitalized for primary abuse of sedatives or hypnotics 4-6 years earlier, the prevalence of intellectual impairment was still increased and about as high as before.
H. Bergman +3 more
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Despite some neuropsychological improvement in a group of 30 patients who had been hospitalized for primary abuse of sedatives or hypnotics 4-6 years earlier, the prevalence of intellectual impairment was still increased and about as high as before.
H. Bergman +3 more
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The New Sedative/Hypnotics [PDF]
, 1985 At the time of this meeting there are three new hypnotic drugs that have either been approved for general use or are undergoing studies in this country. Their pharmacology and proposed uses in anesthesiology are described.
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