benzodiazepine

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More than 310,000 of the benzodiazepine patients also received muscle relaxants, another type of drug the Beers guidelines say seniors should avoid.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

"When necessary, they can be sedated with something we know more about like a benzodiazepine," Russo said.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

Other states replaced sodium thiopental with the benzodiazepine midazolam, which is also used as a sedative before medical procedures.

From Scientific American • Sep. 23, 2022

Later that week I went to a perinatal psychiatry clinic at a major university that signed off on my low-dose benzodiazepine.

From Slate • Jul. 26, 2022

The chief of clinical pharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital declared, in 1976, “I have never seen a case of benzodiazepine dependence” and described it as “an astonishingly unusual event.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019