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By Gary Culliton.
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Medical school gift restriction is linked to subsequent prescribing
Doctors who graduate from medical schools with an active policy on restricting gifts from the pharmaceutical industry are less likely to prescribe new drugs over existing alternatives, suggests a study published in the BMJ.
College releases guidelines on benzodiazepines
By Valerie Ryan.
White plans more controls on use of benzodiazepines
By Lloyd Mudiwa.
Over 65s at increased risk of developing dementia with benzodiazepines
Patients over the age of 65 years who begin taking benzodiazepines are at an approximately 50 per cent increased risk of developing dementia within 15 years compared to never-users, a new study suggests.
Consultant issues caution on prescribing errors
By Lloyd Mudiwa.
GPs are ‘in the firing line’ over new drugs
By Gary Culliton.
Seeing the errors of our ways
Gary Culliton talks to Prof David Williams about a high-profile RCPI symposium on rational and safe prescribing.
Priority should be lack of access to treatment
Dear Editor, Prof Colin Bradley is, of course, correct to highlight the problem of high levels of benzodiazepines use in Ireland (‘Tackling benzodiazepine abuse largely in GPs’ hands’, IMT, December 16, 2011, http://bit.
Restrictions and alternative treatment need to be examined
Dear Editor, As a clinician working in a community mental health team and trying to minimise the use of benzodiazepines and ‘Z’ drugs, I agree with Dr Garrett McGovern’s web comment on Prof Colin Bradley’s recent letter (‘Tackling benzodiazepine abuse largely in GPs’ hands’, see http://bit.