Benzodiazepines are effective anti-anxiety medications but can be addictive, lead to dose adaptation, and are difficult to discontinue.

“the most effective anti-anxiety medications are things that relate to you know uh valium and xanax and ativan as you know these are medications that work uh but they can be addictive they can uh cause the human being to adapt to the dose and to to make it very difficult to stop them”