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Pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders: drugs available

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

P. J. Cowen
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The human search for tranquillity has embraced the use of numerous substances of which alcohol is probably the most widely used. Alcohol acts in part by facilitating neurotransmission at γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) synapses and until recently the pharmacological treatment of anxiety was based principally on drugs that produce similar actions on this neurotransmitter and its receptor complex (Cowen & Nutt, 1982) (Box 1).

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , March 1997 , pp. 66 - 71
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1997 

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