Abstract
Elsewhere in this issue of the Journal, Balter, Levine and Manheimer report on the patterns of anti-anxiety/sedative drug use in Western European society to provide a better perspective about the consumption of these drugs in this country. This is one in a series of reports emanating from a collaborative effort by the Social Research Group of the George Washington University, the Institute for Research in Social Behavior, Berkeley, California, and the Psychopharmacology Research Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. These surveys provide vitally needed information at a time when prescription practices in general, and psychoactive drug prescribing . . .