If you were the physician prescribing anxiolytics to patient

If you were the physician prescribing anxiolytics to patients with anxiety-disorders, what are the challenges you might face when making prescription decisions?

Solution

There are two major challenges that the physicians often face while prescribing anxiolytics to patients. The first one is to identify drug seeking behaviour of addictive patients and knowing when their patient is taking too many drugs and when to discontinue the drugs which are not required now.

The universal challenge of the physician is also to identify if the patient is exaggerating the whole situation to get the medication or is he really suffering.