I got the call every addiction doctor dreads: A patient of mine nearly overdosed. He had a long history of addiction, starting with opioid pain pills in his teens after a sports injury and progressing ...

Benzodiazepines became one of the first blockbuster commercial drugs in the 1960s, and their use is remarkably persistent; approximately 1 in 8 adults in the U.S. consume them annually. Where did they ...

Last week, Britain's Independent newspaper published a bombshell for psychiatry and medicine: the country's Medical Research Council had sat on warnings voiced 30 years earlier that benzodiazepines ...

As attention remains focused on opioid abuse, another drug epidemic rages outside the spotlight: inappropriate prescription of benzodiazepines. In an editorial published in the February 22 issue of ...

The use of benzodiazepines, such as Xanax and Valium, is on the rise, and the number of overdose deaths related to them soared in recent years, new research says. Benzodiazepines are a class of ...

When we think of someone who takes a lot of Xanax, Valium, or Klonopin, we may conjure up the image of a rapper with face tattoos, but it’s not just young people who use and abuse these sedatives that ...

The rate of hospital encounters for benzodiazepine-related toxicity rose by 67% for young adults (aged 19 to 24) and 44% for youth (aged 18 or below) in Ontario between 2013 and 2020, according to a ...

Imagine you have the kind of crippling, heart-pounding anxiety where you're lying sleepless in bed at night, thoughts racing. You feel paralyzed at work because every decision feels like one that will ...

Benzodiazepines are a class of drugs that can treat a range of conditions, including anxiety and insomnia. Off-label, they may help with tics and bipolar disorder. Side effects may include drowsiness, ...

Benzodiazepine drugs are widely used in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but available evidence suggests that they are not effective -- and may even be harmful, concludes a ...

Curtailing prescription opioid use has led to an increase in prescribing benzodiazepines to manage pain. Heightened awareness of the dangers of prescription opioids has prompted a movement to limit ...