A new guideline provided recommendations on benzodiazepine tapering when risks outweigh benefits. Tapering strategy should be adjusted to each patient based on their response, guideline authors said.

Intervention, now in electronic format, had previously shown benefit using printed materia ...

Dear Dr. Roach: For four years, I have been taking 2 mg of alprazolam at night to sleep. For the past six months, I have noticed that if I take it at 10:30 p.m., I usually cannot fall asleep until ...

This study evaluated a passive clinical pharmacist intervention to reduce the coprescribing of benzodiazepines and opioid analgesics by using chart review notes to alert providers. Objectives: ...

Among those fully discontinuing benzodiazepines, 10.4 percent had taken a year or longer to taper, though their symptoms persisted beyond discontinuation, sometimes for months and years. Many had ...

In the primary care setting, long-term use of benzodiazepines is associated with many risks, including dependence and potential for abuse or misuse, excessive sedation, cognitive dysfunction, memory ...

The drugs treat disorders such as anxiety, panic attacks and insomnia, but stopping them abruptly can compound users’ symptoms and even endanger their lives. By Christina Caron Tasha Hedges took Xanax ...

Doctors may retire, but an inappropriate prescription can last forever. Or, until the field changes. At the moment, a sea change in how doctors prescribe benzodiazepines is taking place across America ...