TY - JOUR T1 - Psychological alternatives to long-term benzodiazepine use JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 279 LP - 281 VL - 33 IS - 250 AU - M. A. Cormack AU - A. Sinnott Y1 - 1983/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/33/250/279.abstract N2 - 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. ER -