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The diagnosis and management of benzodiazepine dependence
  • H. Ashton
  • Medicine, Psychology
    Current opinion in psychiatry
  • 1 May 2005
TLDR
Benzodiazepine dependence could be prevented by adherence to recommendations for short-term prescribing (2–4 weeks only when possible), and withdrawal from dependent patients is feasible and need not be traumatic if judiciously, and often individually, managed.
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High frequency localised “hot spots” in temporal lobes of patients with intractable tinnitus: A quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) study
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Benzodiazepine withdrawal: outcome in 50 patients.
  • H. Ashton
  • Psychology, Medicine
    British journal of addiction
  • 1 June 1987
TLDR
Clinical outcome was assessed in SO consecutive patients who completed a course of supervized benzodiazepine withdrawal following referral to a Clinical Pharmacology Unit, finding that younger age was significantly associated with a favourable outcome, but outcome was not related to duration or dosage of Benzodiazepines.
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Guidelines for the rational use of benzodiazepines. When and what to use.
TLDR
Indications for benzodiazepines include acute stress reactions, episodic anxiety, fluctuations in generalised anxiety, and as initial treatment for severe panic and agoraphobia, and occasionally in acute psychoses.
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Benzodiazepine withdrawal: an unfinished story.
  • H. Ashton
  • Psychology, Medicine
    British medical journal
  • 14 April 1984
TLDR
A woman who suffered a miscarriage and suffered bouts of depression together with uncontrollable outbursts of rage, and was prescribed many different forms of antidepressants, hypnotics, and tranquillisers to take with the Valium, describes her struggle with depression and anxiety.
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Protracted withdrawal syndromes from benzodiazepines.
  • H. Ashton
  • Psychology, Medicine
    Journal of substance abuse treatment
  • 1991
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Guidelines for the Rational Use of Benzodiazepines
  • H. Ashton
  • Psychology, Medicine
    Drugs
  • 1 July 1994
TLDR
Indications for benzodiazepines include acute stress reactions, episodic anxiety, fluctuations in generalised anxiety, and as initial treatment for severe panic and agoraphobia.
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GABA-Ergic Drugs: Exit Stage Left, Enter Stage Right
TLDR
Although originally developed as anticonvulsants for epilepsy, these drugs appear to have wider applications for use in affective disorders, especially bipolar depression, anxiety disorders and pain conditions, and it remains to be seen whether long-term use leads to tolerance, dependence and withdrawal or discontinuation reactions.
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Effects of acupuncture and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on cold-induced pain in normal subjects.
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Fatty Acid Composition of Lipids in the Eggs and Alevins from Wild and Cultured Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
TLDR
The fatty acid profiles of lipids extracted from eggs and alevins of cultured chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) were significantly different from that of wild fish of Europe.
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