Addiction to Benzodiazepines
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychiatric Quarterly
- Vol. 69 (4) , 251-261
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022125929946
Abstract
Benzodiazepines are sedative hypnotic medications that can induce a state of dependence. Dependence however is not the same as addiction. The development of dependence is a predictable phenomenon,...Keywords
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