Moderating Benzodiazepine Use in the Elderly published in the October, 1992 issue of the Canadian Family Physician had this to say about the amount of "sedative-hypnotic medications" taken:
In 1988, residents of Quebec aged 65 years and older received 2.7 million prescriptions for sedative-hypnotic medications. These prescriptions cost more than $25 million to fill and represented almost 10% of all medications prescribed to this group and paid for by the provincial health insurance plan.1 Out of an approximate population of 600,000 aged 65 years and older in Quebec, the average number of prescriptions per year per elderly person is 4.5.2 This high rate of benzodiazepine use is not unique to Quebec. A review of the literature reveals concern about this phenomenon in other parts of Canada,3,4 the United States,5 Britain6 and Europe.7 The World Health Organization has identified excessive benzodiazepine use as a global problem.8Most would agree that the abuse of prescription drugs has long been a problem, particularly in the Western world. It is encouraging to see the scientific community and the World Health Organization (WHO) focus on this issue.
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When sports chiropractors first appeared at the Olympic Games in the 1980s, it was alongside individual athletes who had experienced the benefits of chiropractic care in their training and recovery processes at home. Fast forward to Paris 2024, where chiropractic care was available in the polyclinic for all athletes, and the attitude has now evolved to recognize that “every athlete deserves access to sports chiropractic."
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