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Towards a sociology of tranquillizer prescribing
Author(s) -
GABE JONATHAN
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1990.tb00622.x
Subject(s) - macro , medical prescription , politics , benzodiazepine , term (time) , sociology , macro level , psychology , medicine , political science , computer science , nursing , economics , law , economic system , physics , receptor , quantum mechanics , programming language
Summary This paper outlines a sociological approach to benzodiazepine tranquillizer prescribing. The analysis focuses on both the micro level of the doctor‐patient relationship and the macro level of those political, economic and cultural factors which structure the prescribing process. This makes it possible to account for both the overall decline in benzodiazepine prescriptions in the 1980's and the fact that they are still being prescribed on a long‐term basis to ‘a significant number of people’.