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A Controlled Physiological, Clinical and Psychological Evaluation of Chlordiazepoxide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Desmond Kelly ,
Clinton C. Brown  and
John W. Shaffer
Desmond Kelly
Affiliation:
Nuffield Foundation Medical Fellow, and Chief Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, St. Thomas's Hospital, London S.E.1
Clinton C. Brown
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Medical Psychology
John W. Shaffer
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology The Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
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“Much doubt persists about the different benefits from, and indications for, all the many drugs proposed for the relief of anxiety” (Lancet, 1965). Chlordiazepoxide is one of the most popular minor tranquillizers used by psychiatrists, physicians and general practitioners. Its efficacy has been advocated in the “Today's Drugs” column of the British Medical Journal (1967, 1968a and b). Others, however, have been “impressed by the number of patients who claim great benefit but show little evidence of this” (Jenner, 1965).

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 529 , December 1969 , pp. 1387 - 1392
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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