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Use of long-acting benzodiazepines in older people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

M. Kirby
M. Kirby*
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Mater Hospital, Department of Psychiatry of Old Age, Dublin 7, Republic of Ireland
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 174 , Issue 5 , May 1999 , pp. 460 - 461
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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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