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Problematic benzodiazepine use in Germany
MS Martens, U Verthein, R Holzbach, P Raschke · Suchttherapie · 2011 · Heft 08
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2011
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It is estimated that 1.5 to 1.9 million persons in Germany are addicted to legal medicine, mainly benzodiazepines, hypnotics and pain killers. It is assumed that the largest portion of these medications is prescribed by physicians and is taken by the patients over a long period of time. To determine the degree of prescribed benzodiazepines that could lead to misuse and addiction we analyzed benzodiazepine prescriptions in a two year time frame from 2005 to 2007 which were billed at the North German Computing Center for Pharmacies at the expense of the governmental health insurance funds. For the German regions o…
Schlagworte
Diazepam equivalents and DDDs
German medical guidelines
benzodiazepine
epidemiology
prescribed benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines
Pharmacies
Germany
Physicians
Diazepam
Lead
Suchttherapie
