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Minor TranquilizersClinical Correlates of Use in an Urban Population
E. H. Uhlenhuth, MD;
Mitchell B. Balter, PhD;
Ronald S. Lipman, PhD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1978;35(5):650-655.
Abstract
• Rapid growth in the production and prescription of minor tranquilizers has stimulated increasing concern that we live in an "overmedicated" society. Data regarding drug use from a health survey in Oakland, Calif, show that (1) 20% took a minor tranquilizer or sedative during the previous year, 10% daily for a week or more; (2) use was related directly to the amount of distress and dysfunction, to psychologic more than to other types of disturbance, but not to situational stress alone; and (3) taking tranquilizers was only one aspect of a complex pattern of coping behaviors including the almost universal use of some medication, most often a "nonpsychotropic" type.
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago (Dr Uhlenhuth) and Psychopharmacology Research Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Md (Drs Balter and Lipman).
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Nov 30, 1977.
An earlier version of this paper was read at the National Institute of Mental Health Conference on Prescribing and Use of Antianxiety Agents: Clinical, Pharmacologic, and Social Considerations, Bethesda, Md, May 2, 1974.
Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, 950 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637 (Dr Uhlenhuth).
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