According to data from the Institute of Medicines, 2023 percent of the total consumption of all medicines in 8,5 will be those that affect the nervous system.
Of these, citizens use the most anti-anxiety and tension medications such as xalol, bromazepam and diazepam, and compared to previous years, a decrease in the consumption of these medications was recorded. On the other hand, the use of antidepressants increased by 12,5 percent.
Guesting on Boje jutra, Dr. Ljubinko Kaluđerović, a psychiatrist at the Podgorica Health Center, said that the most commonly taken medications are anti-anxiety medications.
"It's that unpleasant feeling that torments people, a feeling of excessive worry, tension, anxiety. It is often defined as a hovering fear. The feeling that something should happen, or rather, these are some situations where the outcome is uncertain. And a person can perceive them as dangerous or unpleasant for themselves. And anxiety is always accompanied by unpleasant symptoms. These are sweating, rapid breathing, heart palpitations, tremors or shaking hands, sometimes there can be dizziness and some other symptoms. When anxiolytics are given, panic and anxiety are brought under control very quickly," said Kaluđerović.
One of the biggest problems is that these medications, unlike antidepressants, cause addiction and often tolerance.
"Sometimes it starts with half a tablet of a drug, bromazepam, and ends with five, ten or several dozen drugs that patients take during the day. And then treatment is necessary, not only within the outpatient clinic, but sometimes even inpatient treatment is necessary. And very interestingly, if a person is addicted to some other substances, when the treatment process comes and begins, then they abruptly stop taking those substances. Whether it is a narcotic or alcohol, but if a person is addicted to benzodiazepines, even in hospital conditions, they must not immediately abruptly stop taking benzodiazepines, but they must be gradually reduced because if the consumption of benzodiazepines is abruptly stopped, even in such conditions, complications can occur, epileptic seizures and some other conditions that can endanger the patient's life," said Kaluđerović.
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