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Journal of clinical psychopharmacology • 1986 | View Paper
“Many of these medications had the potential for adverse interactions with alcohol , including opioids, anxiolytics , antidepressants, hypnotics, antipsychotics, and mood regulators.”
Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova • 2015 | View Paper
“Subjects are especially vulnerable when (a) antianxiety drugs are first introduced; (b) the dose is increased; and (c) these agents are taken in combination with alcohol and other drugs.”
“At the pharmacodynamic level, ethanol can enhance the deleterious effects of sedatives, certain anxiolytics , sedative antidepressants and antipsychotics, and anticholinergic agents, on performance.”
“Mechanisms of lethal interactions between moderate overdoses of ethanol and anxiolytics / opiates / sedatives are poorly understood.”
“Chronic exposure to ethanol (EtOH) alters receptor-mediated responses and the numbers of these channels and specific subunits; as well as induces anxiolytic , sedative, and anesthetic activity in the human brain.”
Journal of receptor and signal transduction research • 2011 | View Paper
“… anxiolytics … alcohol at least twice a week (odds ratio=2.42; 95% confidence interval=1.30-4.51), to be binge drinkers (odds ratio=1.86; ….43) and to be heavy alcohol consumers (odds ratio=2.22; 95% confidence interval= 1.13-4.39) than men not using psychotropics.”
“ Central ethanol exposure appears to exert antianxiety effects that attenuate apneic disruptions but under the state of withdrawal, the cues associated with such effects elicit an opposite reaction.”
“High ethanol intake is well known to induce both anxiolytic and anxiogenic effects, in correlation with chromatin remodeling in the amygdaloid brain region and deficits in cell proliferation and survival in the hippocampus of rodents.”