Benzodiazepines are highly addictive and can cause severe withdrawal symptoms, including autonomic instability and seizures, upon cessation. — Whalespan
Benzodiazepines are highly addictive and can cause severe withdrawal symptoms, including autonomic instability and seizures, upon cessation.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“benzodiazepines are not necessarily first-line for anxiety but they work for anxiety at a molecular level they're highly addictive because they address they change the frequency with which the GABA channel which is well it's a chloride channel in the brain opens so ends with II's apenas barbiturates alcohol act on the same channel in the brain and the brain adjusts very quickly and they're quite habit-forming and just any of those medications with it's a barbiturate like pentobarbital benzodiazepine like xanax for klonopin or alcohol when we stop those medications people die they have autonomic instability they have seizures it's a big deal for horrible medications
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