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Medication dependence and anxiety

Lisa L von Moltke1, David J Greenblatt

  • 1Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Mass, USA.

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
|October 29, 2011
PubMed

Keywords:
anxietybenzodiazepinedependencediscontinuationselective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

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