BENZODIAZEPINES CURRENT STANDA
Smith, D. E. / Wesson, D. R.![BENZODIAZEPINES CURRENT STANDA](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/220/22015705/CHSBZCOP0322015705.jpg)
Since their introduction to medical practice in 1960, benzodiazepines have become among the most commonly prescribed medications and have, to a great extent, replaced prescriptions of short-acting barbiturates and other sedative-hypnotics. The discovery of their psychoactive properties was almost missed. During a cleaning of their laboratory in April of 1957, Earl Reeder called to Leo Sternbach's attention several hundred milligrams of a subst...