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benzodiazepine

[ben-zoh-dahy-az-uh-peen, -ey-zuh-] / ˌbɛn zoʊ daɪˈæz əˌpin, -ˈeɪ zə- /


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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

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

She urged people dealing with benzodiazepine withdrawal to advocate for themselves as much as they can.

From Salon Jun. 5, 2021

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




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