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. 1993 Mar;18(2):82-4.

Survey of the adjuvant use of benzodiazepines for treating outpatients with schizophrenia

J C Pecknold  1
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Survey of the adjuvant use of benzodiazepines for treating outpatients with schizophrenia

J C Pecknold. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 1993 Mar.

Abstract

A retrospective survey of the use of benzodiazepines by 149 outpatients with schizophrenia found that 59% were on neuroleptics alone and 41% were receiving both neuroleptics and benzodiazepines. Of the group receiving both, 64% were taking a benzodiazepine as a hypnotic agent; 23% of those were taking alprazolam as an anxiolytic. The patients taking neuroleptics and alprazolam required significantly less neuroleptic medication than the group receiving neuroleptics alone.

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