A doctor can help you taper off your Xanax dose safely and treat serious symptoms, like seizures, hallucinations, vomiting, and increased anxiety.

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 ...

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 ...

The temporal relationship between the development of symptoms about three days after gabapentin discontinuation and the absence of any improvements during the administration of benzodiazepines for ...

All In Solutions Wellness Center has enhanced its medical detoxification programs to incorporate comprehensive dual-diagnosis ...

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 ...

Substance-use disorders are complex conditions that often require treatment. Getting help might seem like the obvious first step to take, but managing drug-withdrawal symptoms is no easy feat. That’s ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently released "Guidelines for Managing Substance Withdrawal in Jails -- A Tool for Local Government Officials, Jail Administrators, Correctional Officers, and ...

More teens and young adults appear to be developing addiction or dependence on drugs that help them sleep, calm down, and manage anxiety. “Teens and young adults come in with stories that are eerily ...

“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 ...