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Editorial
. 2018 Jul 27:362:k3208.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3208.

Tackling benzodiazepine misuse

Benedict Hayhoe  1 , James Lee-Davey  2
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Editorial

Tackling benzodiazepine misuse

Benedict Hayhoe et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

The time to take decisive action has come

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Competing interests We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests: none

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