Opioids are powerful painkillers. Benzodiazepines (benzos) are strong sedatives that are prescribed for anxiety or sleep problems. Each of these medicines has side effects. Both drugs can be addictive ...

Xanax is taken globally and is one of the most prescribed psychiatric drugs in the U.S. It's part of a group of anti-anxiety drugs known as benzodiazepines -- or benzos. They're commonly prescribed ...

Benzos, anti-anxiety drugs including Klonopin and Xanax, are widely prescribed. But they are addictive drugs and withdrawal can be rough when you try to taper off. Many people with pain issues, who ...

Benzodiazepines like Xanax are contributing to opioid overdoses. It happened to me. Share on Pinterest How we see the world shapes who we choose to be — and sharing compelling experiences can frame ...

Though exposure of the opioid crisis has dominated coverage for the last several years, researchers and health professionals worry it's diverting attention from the "other prescription drug problem," ...

Boulder’s Jana Hill doesn’t appear on the October 6 edition of CNN’s This Is Life With Lisa Ling, which explores whether fallout from the widespread use of benzodiazepines, or benzos, such as Xanax ...

When Shirley was handed a three-month prescription for Ativan, her doctor insisted the popular sedative was just an "innocent little thing" to help her sleep. But after her doctor yanked her off the ...

Warning: I will be saying very negative things about benzodiazepines in an effort to force doctors to think twice before prescribing them and to discourage patients from ever using them. However, ...

Popular anti-anxiety medication could be putting more than 1 million pregnant women at risk of miscarriage, a new study suggests. Researchers from Taiwan studied more than 3 million pregnancies in 2 ...

Harm reduction services have issued warnings about fake and laced benzo “crisis”, which could lead to a “fentanyl-style epidemic”. According to harm reduction services Pill Report and The Loop, the UK ...

In February 2021, Grace Bagwell Adams, Ph.D., gave birth to her second child. It was the peak of the pre-vaccine COVID surge, and like so many who delivered babies during that intense chapter of the ...

Lena Dunham on Dax Shepard's podcast 'Armchair Expert' revealed that she is six months sober after "misusing benzos." By Katherine Schaffstall Lena Dunham revealed that she is six months sober after ...