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Dependence on Benzodiazepines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Peter Tyrer
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 137 , Issue 6 , December 1980 , pp. 576 - 577
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1980 

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