PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cormack, M. A.
AU  - Sinnott, A.
TI  - Psychological alternatives to long-term benzodiazepine use
DP  - 1983 May 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 279--281
VI  - 33
IP  - 250
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/33/250/279.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/33/250/279.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1983 May 01; 33
AB  - The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of psychological management of anxiety as an alternative to long-term benzodiazepine medication. Fifty patients were identified who had been taking benzodiazepines continuously for at least one year. No significant differences were found between patients who joined a treatment group and patients who were simply advised by letter to cut down their pills. Patients gave a variety of reasons for initially requiring medication and somewhat different reasons for needing to maintain chemotherapy, which suggested that pill-taking might be self-maintaining through withdrawal symptoms.