A six-year study on 51 Vietnam veterans who were drug abusers of either mainly stimulants (11 people), mainly opiates (26 people), or mainly benzodiazepines (14 people) was carried out to assess psychiatric symptoms related to the specific drugs of abuse.
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A survey in Senegal of doctors found that many doctors feel that their training and knowledge of benzodiazepines is, in general, poor; a study in Dakar found that almost one-fifth of doctors ignored prescribing guidelines regarding short-term use of benzodiazepines, and almost three-quarters of doctors regarded their training and knowledge of benzodiazepines to be inadequate.
Substance dependence | Repeal of Act for Securing Dependence of Ireland Act 1782 | National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence | Physical dependence | Correlation and dependence | Temperature dependence of liquid viscosity | Benzodiazepine | benzodiazepine |