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- ANXIETY DISORDERS:
- A group of mental disorders or conditions characterized in part by chronic feelings of fear, excessive and obsessive worrying, restlessness, and panic attacks. Anxiety disorders include panic disorder, agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Post-traumatic stress disorder, and others.
- DOCTOR SHOPPING:
- A practice in which an individual continually switches physicians so that he or she can get enough of a prescription drug to feed an addiction. This practice makes it difficult for physicians to track whether the patient has already been prescribed the same drug by another physician.
- PANIC ATTACKS:
- Sudden, repeated, paralyzing bouts of extreme fear and anxiety.
- PHOBIA:
- The irrational fear of a specific object or situation that limits normal functioning.
- REBOUND:
- Also known as discontinuation symptoms, these occur when the benzodiazepines are withdrawn. These symptoms are an aspect of withdrawal in which the patient develops anxiety, insomnia, or other serious emotional reactions that are...
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