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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Implementation of treatment for alcohol withdrawal symptoms without benzodiazepines was associated with ...

The FDA will require more cautions be included with the Boxed Warning that comes with benzodiazepines such as alprazolam (brand name: Xanax), lorazepam (Ativan) and clonazepam (Klonopin). Wednesday’s ...

Missouri had the 4th highest rate in the country of residents taking benzodiazepines, and that was before the pandemic amped up anxiety. Experts say that long term use of these medications can cause ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — "I was repeatedly told that because I took it as prescribed that I couldn't be dependent and that Ativan was harmless." Geraldine Burns, of Boston, was prescribed Ativan — one of ...

“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 ...