[Benzodiazepines in pharmacy].

Belgium was one of the 71 States represented at the United Nations Conference that took place in Vienna in 1971 for the introduction of a protocol on psychotropic substances. The Conference decided that the measures taken had to be coordinated and universal and the psychotropic substances were registered in four Tables. The Committee of Narcotics has decided, on the Vienna session from 6 to 10 February 1984, to register 33 benzodiazepines in Table IV. In Belgium, sales of the entirety of drugs slightly decreased (4% from 1974 to 1980) and sales of antibiotics shrunk a little (0,39% decrease from 1976 to 1979), while sales of benzodiazepines strongly progressed (21% from 1976 to 1980).