Up to 2 per cent of Germany's population is dependent on hypnotics

Every year, the statutory health insurance companies cover bills for some 230 million daily doses of benzodiazepines. Roughly the same amount again is prescribed in private prescriptions, but this figure is often not taken into consideration. The exact number of persons with benzodiazepine dependency is not known, but an estimated 128,000 to 1.6 million people in Germany are likely to be affected.



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