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Long-term Treatment of Anxiety and Risk of Withdrawal

Prospective Comparison of Clorazepate and Buspirone

Karl Rickels, MD; Edward Schweizer, MD; Irma Csanalosi, MD; W. George Case, MD; Hack Chung, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1988;45(5):444-450.


Abstract



• Risk of withdrawal was investigated in a prospective, double-blind comparison of clorazepate dipotassium, a benzodiazepine with a long half-life, and the nonbenzodiazepine buspirone hydrochloride in the long-term treatment of anxious outpatients. Patients were treated with therapeutic doses of clorazepate dipotassium (15 to 60 mg/d) or buspirone hydrochloride (10 to 40 mg/d) for six continuous months before their tranquilizer therapy was blindly and abruptly stopped. There was a significant increase in symptom severity consistent with a withdrawal reaction for the clorazepate group but not the buspirone group. For the clorazepate group, there was a suggestion that previous discontinuous exposure to benzodiazepines might sensitize patients to subsequent withdrawal effects. For the buspirone group, a higher dropout rate raised questions about patient satisfaction with therapy in this rather chronically anxious population.



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From the Department of Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology Research and Treatment Unit, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.


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Accepted for publication Feb 4, 1988.

Reprint requests to University Hospital, 203 Piersol Bldg/4283, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (Dr Rickels).



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