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  2. Effects of long-term benzodiazepine use - Wikipedia

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    In 1989, in a 4- to 6-year follow-up study of 30 inpatient people who used benzodiazepines non-medically, Neuropsychological function was found to be permanently affected in some people with long-term high dose non-medical use of benzodiazepines. Brain damage similar to alcoholic brain damage was observed.

  3. Benzodiazepine overdose - Wikipedia

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    An Australian study (2004) of overdose admissions between 1987 and 2002 found alprazolam, which happens to be the most prescribed benzodiazepine in Australia and the United States, to be more toxic than diazepam and the other three benzodiazepines which it was compared to (alprazolam, diazepam, oxazepam, chlordiazepoxide, and clonazepam).

  4. Benzodiazepine dependence - Wikipedia

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    Due to the serious concerns of addiction, national governments were recommended to urgently seek to raise knowledge via training about the addictive nature of benzodiazepines and appropriate prescribing of benzodiazepines. [81] A six-year study on 51 Vietnam veterans who had a substance use disorder related mainly to stimulants (11 people ...

  5. Benzodiazepine use disorder - Wikipedia

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    A 1991 study indicated that diazepam, in particular, had a greater abuse liability among people who were drug abusers than did many of the other benzodiazepines. Some of the available data also suggested that lorazepam and alprazolam are more diazepam-like in having relatively high abuse liability, while oxazepam, halazepam, and possibly ...

  6. Not Enough Doctors Are Treating Heroin Addiction With A Life ...

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    Below, see how many patients can potentially be prescribed buprenorphine by certified doctors in each state, compared to the number of people suffering from opiate-related addictions. Sources: Drug Enforcement Administration, American Journal of Public Health , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  7. List of countries by antidepressant consumption - Wikipedia

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    The source for the data below is the OECD Health Statistics 2018, released by the OECD in June 2018 and updated on 8 November 2018. [1]The unit of measurement used by the OECD is defined daily dose (DDD), defined as "the assumed average maintenance dose per day for a drug used on its main indication in adults". [2]

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    “That’s nearly 17,000 people dying from prescription opiate overdoses every year. And more than 400,000 go to an emergency room for that reason.” Clinics that dispensed painkillers proliferated with only the loosest of safeguards, until a recent coordinated federal-state crackdown crushed many of the so-called “pill mills.”

  9. Participation in mental health care in low-income households ...

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    When looking at the causal and multigenerational effects of poverty on mental health, it becomes clear that effecting real change requires more than simply telling people to "toughen up" or "pull ...