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 ...

Late last week, a desperate 46-year-old woman contacted me. She was experiencing symptoms of acute benzodiazepine withdrawal including palpitations, constant pacing, and exhaustion. When her ...

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 ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My daughter got caught up in drinking -- and drinking hard. A doctor in California prescribed Xanax and then, of all things, Klonopin. She is in such a bad way, I can’t even fathom ...

My mentor was dying and I had no idea what to say. It was Spring 2018 and John Pettegrew, Lehigh University’s chair of history and my dissertation adviser, had just received a call from his doctor. We ...

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 ...

Two years after she started taking Xanax, Dana Bare began having panic attacks like never before. Her memory started slipping ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Implementation of treatment for alcohol withdrawal symptoms without benzodiazepines was associated with ...