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The Benzodiazepines: Current Standards for Medical Practice pp 67–86Cite as

An International Overview

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During the almost 25 years since the introduction of LibriumR, the first benzodiazepine, benzodiazepines have become among the most widely used pharmaceutical substances in the history of medicine. These compounds have been of interest to me since they were first discovered, and I was responsible for some of the early clinical studies with LibriumR (Marks 1960a, 1960b). There is now a large number of benzodiazepines and some are antagonists rather than agonists to specific benzodiazepine receptors in the central nervous system (Braestrup & Squires, 1977; Moehler & Okada, 1977).

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    D. R. Wesson MD

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Marks, J. (1985). An International Overview. In: Smith, D.E., Wesson, D.R. (eds) The Benzodiazepines: Current Standards for Medical Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4886-0_5

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