| Antiepileptics, antipsychotics, and anxiolytics are drugs that may be used as sedatives. |
| Where medication is judged necessary, oral anxiolytics, such as lorazepam, may be available, as may a parenteral sedative, typically diazepam. |
| There is consequently no discussion of the different aspects of sedation, which may be differentially provided by analgesics, anxiolytics, neuroleptics and amnesics. |
| Sedatives and anxiolytics should not be used alone to manage pain because they can mask the behavioral response to pain without providing analgesia. |
| The medicines investigated include antidepressants, stimulants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines and other anxiolytics. |
| Smokers with a high level of anxiety symptoms could possibly benefit from anxiolytics as a smoking cessation intervention. |
