What is it about?
Benzodiazepines is used for a variety of sedative reasons. We examined how many Incident users became long term users and which social determinants determined it. A few percentage had long term use, it associated with some social and clinical factors
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Why is it important?
Denmark have restrictions regarding prescriptions of benzodiazepines. In last years prescriptions of BZRAs have declined while many off label drugs increased. The reason for the regulations was the high amount of BZRAs use previously, and too some degree the addictive potential of BZRAs.
Perspectives
Public Health regulations interfere with doctors prescriptions pattern. However we should remain aware of the consequences, such as prescriptions of less efficient medications. Pro and cons of every regulations should be evaluated often. Thus the amount of people, who become addict to BZRAs should be valued against the amount getting less efficient treatment.
Thomas Wolff Rosenqvist
CKFF
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This page is a summary of: Long-Term Use of Benzodiazepines and Benzodiazepine-Related Drugs: A Register-Based Danish Cohort Study on Determinants and Risk of Dose Escalation, American Journal of Psychiatry, September 2023, American Psychiatric Association,
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20230075.
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