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Drugs and Exposure Treatment in Phobic and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

Author(s) -

Isaac Marks

Publication year - 1984

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107688407700702

Subject(s) - drug , obsessive compulsive , phobic disorder , medicine , psychiatry , psychology , pharmacology , psychotherapist , anxiety

Several classes of drugs have been used with behavioural treatments in phobic and obsessive-compulsive disorders (Marks 1981). Sedatives like barbiturates, benzodiazepines and alcohol have not been found to be of lasting benefit and in high doses may actually be counterproductive because what is learned under the influence of the drug usually fails to transfer to the drug-free state. Beta-blockers too have not had durable effects. Antidepressants seem to be of greater value.

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