Surreptitious drug use by patients in a panic disorder study |
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| Authors: | D B Clark C B Taylor W T Roth C Hayward A Ehlers J Margraf W S Agras |
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| Institution: | Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University Medical Center, Calif. |
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| Abstract: | In a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial comparing alprazolam and imipramine for panic disorder, serum analysis revealed that a substantial proportion of the patients took explicitly prohibited anxiolytic medication. Excluding these patients changed the results. |
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