Millions of older adults in the United States take benzodiazepines or zolpidem-based sleep aids to manage anxiety and ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants updated boxed warnings on benzodiazepines to reflect the "serious" risks of abuse, misuse, addiction, physical dependence, and withdrawal reactions ...

For more on this story, watch “This Is Life with Lisa Ling” on CNNgo. Catch new episodes Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. There’s no understating the extent of America’s opioid crisis. In 2017, the same year ...

Benzodiazepines, sometimes called benzos, are a type of medication known as tranquilizers. Familiar names include Valium and Xanax. These drugs slow down your central nervous system, cause sedation ...

The use of benzodiazepines, such as Xanax and Valium, is on the rise, and the number of overdose deaths related to them soared in recent years, new research says. Benzodiazepines are a class of ...

Imagine you have the kind of crippling, heart-pounding anxiety where you're lying sleepless in bed at night, thoughts racing. You feel paralyzed at work because every decision feels like one that will ...

Alcohol withdrawal can be extremely unpleasant (see here for an overview). Symptoms vary from person to person, but most people will experience some negative symptoms of alcohol withdrawal if they try ...

I got the call every addiction doctor dreads: A patient of mine nearly overdosed. He had a long history of addiction, starting with opioid pain pills in his teens after a sports injury and progressing ...

His daughter's account has raised questions about the difference between physical dependence and addiction, side effects and potential treatments 4 minute read You can save this article by registering ...

Two years after she started taking Xanax, Dana Bare began having panic attacks like never before. Her memory started slipping. Her husband had to remind her how to make a sandwich. Bare’s ailments ...