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 ...

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 ...

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of pregabalin as a tapering therapy on the subjective sleep quality of patients who underwent a benzodiazepine withdrawal program in routine medical practice.

A new publication from physicians published in JAMA Psychiatry establishes and clinically describes complex persistent benzodiazepine dependence, or CPBD. Millions of Americans suffering from anxiety ...

Dr. Brennan answers the question: 'Benzodiazepine Side Effects For Anxiety?' — -- Question: What are the side effects associated with benzodiazepine treatment for anxiety disorders, and are there ...

Benzodiazepines are commonly talked about on hit TV shows, but what are the risks? If you've been HBO’s new season of White Lotus, then you've seen Parker Posey’s character Victoria Ratliff popping a ...

“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 ...