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Article: Antidepressants better than benzos for GAD long term.(Adult Psychiatry)(drug therapies for generalized anxiety disorder)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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SANTA FE, N.M. -- Benzodiazepines work faster than antidepressants and are prescribed more often for generalized anxiety disorder, but that doesn't make them the better choice, Alan J. Gelenberg, M.D., said at a psychiatric symposium sponsored by the University of Arizona.
Antidepressants are more effective in the long term, he said, and generalized anxiety disorder should be treated over the long term.
"If patients stay on treatment, they do tend to get better and better," said Dr. Gelenberg, head of the department of psychiatry at the University of Arizona, Tucson. "The effect goes across antidepressants. The drugs that have been tested seem to work."
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