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 ...

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (WOOD) — The death of an inmate who was cut off from Klonopin at the Muskegon County Jail is shedding light on the dangers of withdrawing from long-term use of benzodiazepines.

Purpose. A case of apparent gabapentin withdrawal symptoms after discontinuation of gabapentin therapy is reported. Summary. A 53-year-old woman had coffee ground emesis, a two-day history of black ...

The rate of withdrawal symptoms in pharma-funded studies was about the same as trials not funded by pharmaceutical companies. “This work is a salutary lesson, as some people may have been dissuaded ...

Babies born after being exposed to both opioids and benzodiazepines before birth are more likely to have severe drug withdrawal, requiring medications like morphine for treatment, compared to infants ...