benzodiazepine use | benzodiazepine consumption

Effects of tranquillization: benzodiazepine use in Canada [ Effects of tranquillization ]

non benzodiazepine [ non-benzodiazepine ]

bromazepam [ 7-bromo-5-(pyridin-2-yl)-3H-1,4- benzodiazepin-2(1H)-one | 7-bromo-1,3-dihydro-5-(2-pyridinyl)-2H-1,4- benzodiazepin-2-one ]

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include sel ...[+++]f-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptoms, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

private use (1) | personal use (2) | educational use (3) | internal use (4)

Definition: This category should be used when two or more psychoactive substances are known to be involved, but it is impossible to assess which substance is contributing most to the disorders. It should also be used when the exact identity of some or even all the psychoactive substances being used is uncertain or unknown, since many multiple drug users themselves often do not know the details of what they are taking. | misuse of drugs NOS

The consumption of illegal / non-prescribed substances was reduced significantly (especially the daily use of Heroin and Cocaine, to a lesser degree the regular use of Benzodiazepines, no significant reduction of Cannabis use).

I've provided a comparison of our program's use of codeine-containing drugs and benzodiazepine, which are the most common drugs that are misused.If you look at the chart on page 4 of my brief, it illustrates that the beneficiaries of the non-insured health benefit program use drugs of these types relatively the same as others using public plans do.

- Schedule IV: it includes hypnotics, tranquilizers (benzodiazepine) and analgesics, which engender an appreciable dependence, but are mainly, used in therapy.

But our evidence and I'm sorry, this is unpublished evidence, so I won't be able to give it to the committee in a formal way shows, in evaluating our program, that of people who've been on methadone for four and a half years or longer, 80% of them are not using opiates or cocaine or benzodiazepines (1035) So if you keep people in treatment long enough their drug use does go down.