Nadav says she has been through protracted withdrawal syndrome: Six weeks after starting to taper off Xanax and Ambien in 2021, "my hands and my head were shaking, I was hallucinating," she says.

Further studies from 2000 and 2011 determined that “Up to 44% of long-term benzodiazepine users have persistent moderate to severe withdrawal symptoms when they attempt to discontinue the drug ...

The combination of gabapentin and benzodiazepine can be safe in the treatment of benzodiazepine withdrawal, according to data presented at American Psychiatric Association annual meeting, which ...

After people who were prescribed benzodiazepines discontinued taking them, they can cause withdrawal symptoms for several months on end or even for longer than a year.

Symptoms of benzo withdrawal include anxiety, panic, insomnia, muscle spasms, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, blurred vision, seizures, hallucinations, memory loss, trouble concentrating, clouded ...

But even though benzodiazepines have been around since the ’60s, some doctors are unaware of how best to help their patients stop taking these drugs. This is in part because there is no one-size ...

Pittenger and Desan [17] described two cases of patients suffering from gabapentin withdrawal treated with benzodiazepines without any improvement in symptoms. Both patients had a history of ...

In a registry study, patients who discontinued benzodiazepines after long-term therapy had an increased risk for death in the following 12 months. Whether there is a causal relationship between ...

Among those, any use of benzodiazepine decreased following implementation from 6,431 hospitalizations to 2,823 (P <.001), with parallel decreases in the mean total dosage of lorazepam before vs ...