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Background Many strategies aimed at deprescribing benzodiazepine receptor agonists
(BZRA) in older adults have already been evaluated with various success rates. There is so …

Objective Ménière's disease (MD) is a clinical condition defined by spontaneous vertigo
attacks (each lasting 20 minutes to 12 hours) with documented low‐to midfrequency …

Opioids and benzodiazepines are increasingly used alone or in combination. However, the
combined use of these agents increases the risk for potentially lethal respiratory depression …

Importance The proportion of patients who develop long-term benzodiazepine use remains
controversial, as do the length of time before long-term use develops and the factors …

Importance Benzodiazepines have been prescribed for short periods to patients with
depression who are beginning antidepressant therapy to improve depressive symptoms …

Background and Aims A total of 2.4 million adults in England were dispensed a
benzodiazepine or Z‐drug (BZRA) in 2017/18, and more than 250 000 patients in the UK …

REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) is a chronic sleep condition characterized by dream
enactment and loss of REM atonia. Individuals often present to clinic with complaints of …

Objective: The authors investigated the frequency and determinants of long-term use and
risk of dose escalation of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine-related drugs …

Purpose Long‐term benzodiazepine (BZD) treatment continues to be a debated topic.
Because individual BZDs have different clinical profiles, we assessed the nationwide trends …