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 ...

Examining withdrawal risks, symptom variability, and safer discontinuation strategies for lorazepam Education is ...

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 ...

Ativan, also known by its generic name lorazepam, is a prescription medication commonly used to treat anxiety disorder, insomnia, and seizures. If you or a family member has been prescribed Ativan or ...

“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 ...