Benzodiazepine Use and Misuse Among Patients in a Methadone Program
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Benzodiazepine Use and Misuse Among Patients in a Methadone Program
BACKGROUND Benzodiazepines (BZD) misuse is a serious public health problem, especially among opiate-dependent patients with anxiety enrolled in methadone program because it puts patients at higher risk of life-threatening multiple drug overdoses. Both elevated anxiety and BZD misuse increase the risk for ex-addicts to relapse. However, there is no recent study to assess how serious the problem ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Psychiatry
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244x-11-90