How to Use benzodiazepine in a Sentence
benzodiazepine
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Alprazolam, the brand name of which is Xanax, is a benzodiazepine and can make someone drowsy.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Would a benzodiazepine make as big an impression as 0.5 mg/kg ketamine?
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2014
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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
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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
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The state-of-the-art treatment for benzodiazepine dependence is not some grueling ordeal.
—Lindsay Beyerstein, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2020
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The amount of benzodiazepine medicine in a prescription also doubled over this time period.
—Breeanna Hare, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
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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
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Fentanyl was the top killer, followed by benzodiazepines, morphine and heroin, according to the report.
—Dara Kam, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2017
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He is slumped on Deb’s couch, overdosing on opioids, benzodiazepines and Lyrica.
—Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2019
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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
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This is not the first time that an overlap between opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions has been identified.
—Mark Lieber, CNN, 13 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Another part of the problem with benzodiazepines is a lack of awareness in the medical community, too.
—Breeanna Hare, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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The first drug, midazolam, is a benzodiazepine - like Xanax or Valium.
—Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 26 June 2018
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That year, fentanyl was most commonly found mixed in with prescription opioids and benzodiazepines.
—Dr. Priscilla Koirala, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
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George Alvarez, the man charged in the deaths of eight people after his vehicle rammed a crowd in front of a Brownsville, Tex., migrant shelter, had cocaine, benzodiazepines and marijuana in his system at the time, police said Tuesday.
—Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
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Worse still, a dose that works today can kill tomorrow, especially if the patient has taken other drugs, such as alcohol or benzodiazepines (a class of drugs that includes Valium and Xanax).
—Keith Humphreys, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
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