How to Use benzodiazepine in a Sentence

benzodiazepine

noun

• Alprazolam, the brand name of which is Xanax, is a benzodiazepine and can make someone drowsy.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
• The next-best treatment for most people would be an antidepressant or a low dose of a benzodiazepine.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 11 Feb. 2019
• Cloud, 25, died of a lethal mix of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine and benzodiazepines, the coroner's office confirmed in a phone call with NBC News.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• Glover's lawyer, Scottie Celestin, said Jolly died from a dose of the sedative benzodiazepine that was given to him at a hospital, not from the stab wounds.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Mar. 2022
• Two of the Peak patients Rolling Stone spoke with said they were not questioned about their alcohol use nor their benzodiazepine use during the intake.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2022
• For years, geriatricians and researchers have sounded the alarm about the use of benzodiazepines among older adults.
  — Paula Span, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
• In the scene, Dion’s physical therapist lays her down on a massage table and gives her a benzodiazepine nasal spray.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 26 June 2024
• Would a benzodiazepine make as big an impression as 0.5 mg/kg ketamine?
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2014
• For example, a common way to break a seizure is to treat someone with a benzodiazepine such as Ativan or Valium.
  — Jeremy Samuel Faust, Slate Magazine, 28 June 2017
• If your drug plan decides your use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines may not be safe, the plan may limit your coverage for those drugs.
  — Bob Moos, Dallas News, 7 June 2019
• More brain-calming drugs — a class of drugs known as benzodiazepines that includes Xanax and Valium — were dispensed after the earthquake.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• The state-of-the-art treatment for benzodiazepine dependence is not some grueling ordeal.
  — Lindsay Beyerstein, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2020
• The amount of benzodiazepine medicine in a prescription also doubled over this time period.
  — Breeanna Hare, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
• Sedation causes the brain to take on a semi-conscious or unconscious state, and the drugs include propofol and benzodiazepines.
  — Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2020
• Fentanyl was the top killer, followed by benzodiazepines, morphine and heroin, according to the report.
  — Dara Kam, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• He is slumped on Deb’s couch, overdosing on opioids, benzodiazepines and Lyrica.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2019
• For instance, people who take benzodiazepines, such as Xanax, at the same time as opioids can fatally overdose on lower doses of painkillers.
  — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2019
• This is not the first time that an overlap between opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions has been identified.
  — Mark Lieber, CNN, 13 Apr. 2018
• Unknown to the recipient, the powder was a benzodiazepine, a class of depressants that includes drugs like Xanax, and was delivered in a dose large enough to purposely knock him out.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• About five months ago, the lab began to encounter a surge in designer benzodiazepines, knock-offs of anti-anxiety drugs often used with opioids.
  — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• The rest received either salt water or the drug midazolam, a benzodiazepine like Xanax that is also used as an anesthetic agent.
  — C. Michael White, The Conversation, 8 Nov. 2023
• Stone took anything and everything over the course of his life: peyote, quaaludes, smack, Ritalin, Halcion, benzodiazepines.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• When deaths from drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and benzodiazepines are included, the overall increase was 21 percent.
  — Author: Lenny Bernstein, Christopher Ingraham, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2017
• Another part of the problem with benzodiazepines is a lack of awareness in the medical community, too.
  — Breeanna Hare, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
• Though the opioid epidemic in the U.S. has reached crisis levels, an uptick in the use of Xanax and other benzodiazepines is also sounding alarms in the medical community.
  — Dana Wood, Town & Country, 23 Jan. 2018
• Her first night in the hospital, Megan was started on a new drug regimen: the antipsychotic Zyprexa, along with Ativan, a benzodiazepine used to treat anxiety.
  — David Kortava, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• Phenobarbital, which is often used to treat epilepsy and seizures, and benzodiazepines, which are used to treat anxiety, can be habit-forming.
  — Riley Zhang, NBC News, 21 June 2023
• The nasal spray Dion was given was benzodiazepine, a depressant drug that relieves anxiety and reduces muscle spasms.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 26 June 2024
• Nonetheless, Cloud’s mother found him in his childhood room, dead from a staggering cocktail of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and benzodiazepines.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
• Doctors gave him benzodiazepines, Valium and Librium, to treat the seizures and anxiety caused by his alcohol withdrawal.
  — Max Blau, NPR, 22 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024