More than 30 million prescriptions for benzodiazepines are dispensed each year in the United States, yet as Vanderbilt University psychiatrist Alistair J. Reid Finlayson and four colleagues note in ...

When my primary care doctor prescribed Klonopin to treat my severe anxiety in the months before and after major surgery in December 2021, I had no idea that getting off the drug later - as well as the ...

Sub-anesthetic ketamine infusions, which are already used for treatment-resistant depression (TRD), may also help people through benzodiazepine withdrawal, new research published in ...

Missouri had the 4th highest rate in the country of residents taking benzodiazepines, and that was before the pandemic amped up anxiety. Experts say that long term use of these medications can cause ...

Doctors commonly prescribe benzodiazepines for treating anxiety disorders and insomnia. The efficacy of benzodiazepines has been well-documented. Some of them have become household names: Xanax ...

A silent crisis is unfolding in medicine, one that disproportionately affects women and has gone largely unchecked for decades. The overprescription of benzodiazepines, commonly known as tranquilizers ...

“Benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms are more common than most clinicians realize,” Reid Finlayson and colleagues report, citing a 1990 study in the Archives of General Psychiatry that found “58–100 ...