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Comment: Legal Repercussions in Prescribing Benzodiazepines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Tyrer
Peter Tyrer*
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Mapperley Hospital, Nottingham, NG3 6AA
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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 12 , Issue 5 , May 1988 , pp. 190
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