Episode 11: Drug Facts - Sedative-Hypnotics and Anxiolytics with

Episode 11: Drug Facts - Sedative-Hypnotics and Anxiolytics with Dr. Christopher Blazes

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In the final installment of my drug facts series, I discuss sedative-hypnotic and anxiolytic drugs with Dr. Christopher Blazes, Director of the Addiction Psychiatry fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University. Dr. Blazes is triple board-certified in psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and emergency medicine and has published and lectured extensively on benzodiazepine use. In this episode, he reviews the most commonly used drugs in the sedative-hypnotic class of medications, the risks associated with benzodiazepine dependence and addiction, and how patients who have a use disorder are treated. Learn more about Dr. Blazes at https://www.ohsu.edu/people/christopher-blazes-md

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