Assertion: benzodiazepine | /r/HasProperty | prescribed
Facets:
value: commonly
type: DEGREE
value: to relieve stress
type: PURPOSE
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: to treat patients
type: PURPOSE
value: most often
type: DEGREE
value: inappropriately
type: MANNER
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
value: legally
type: MANNER
value: such as the day of surgery
type: TEMPORAL
value: such as for
type: OTHER
value: reluctantly
type: MANNER
value: to relieve anxiety
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The below tables contain a sample list of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine analogs that are commonly prescribed, with their basic pharmacological characteristics, such as half-life and equivalent doses to other benzodiazepines, also listed, along with their trade names and primary uses.
text: When prescribed by a doctor and used for short periods of time, such as the day of surgery or for less than two weeks to aid sleep, benzodiazepines are safe to take.
text: Since benzodiazepines are prescription drugs, some individuals who have a sedative use disorder will get a high volume of this drug by “doctor shopping.
text: Benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed medications, accounting for around one in every 20 prescriptions written by GPs in Australia.
text: Benzodiazepines are prescription medications that have the ability to calm electrical activity within the brain.
text: Although antidepressants with anxiolytic properties have been introduced, and there is increasing awareness of the adverse effects of benzodiazepines, prescriptions for short-term anxiety relief have not significantly dropped.
text: Benzodiazepines are widely prescribed drugs, but they are usually only recommended for short-term use, as long-term use can lead to dependence and resistance.
text: And data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that benzodiazepines, along with opioid pain relievers, are the prescription drugs most often responsible for emergency department visits and drug-related deaths.
text: Benzodiazepines are doctor-prescribed drugs for reducing stress and anxiety, promoting calmness, relaxation and sleep and as anti-depressants (Examples include: estazolam (ProSom), flurazepam (Dalmane), quazepam (Doral), temazepam (Restoril) and triazolam (Halcion), alprazolam (Xanax), chlordiazepoxide (Librium), clorazepate (Tranxene), diazepam (Valium), halazepam (Paxipam), lorazepam (Ativan), oxazepam (Serax) and prazepam (Centrax)
text: Benzodiazepines are a serious prescription drug that have a high risk for abuse.
text: Why then, are they prescribed reluctantly or not at all by many doctors?
text: They may be prescribed to mediate one or more of these effects.
text: Benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed to treat panic disorder, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, insomnia, migraines, seizures, restless legs syndrome, tourettes syndrome and epilepsy.
text: Often, Benzodiazepines will be prescribed to help them cope and function more effectively.
text: Individual differences apply more to the third reason why benzodiazepines are prescribed inappropriately, which is when they are given in the wrong dose to the wrong people.
text: Within a year of the letter's going out, there was found to be a 17% fall in the number of benzodiazepines being prescribed, with 5% of patients having totally discontinued benzodiazepines.
text: The meeting aimed to identify issues that were likely to arise, alert the Department of Health to the scale of the problem and identify the pharmacology and nature of benzodiazepine dependence and the volume of benzodiazepines being prescribed.
text: Benzodiazepines such as Xanax, Ativan and Valium are commonly prescribed to treat anxiety, panic disorders and insomnia.
text: Benzodiazepines are legal when they are prescribed.
text: They are prescribed to reduce anxiety or stress, encourage sleep or to relax muscles.
text: Benzodiazepines are prescribed most often to treat anxiety and sleep disorders.
text: Benzodiazepines, also known as minor tranquillisers, are most commonly prescribed by doctors to relieve stress and anxiety and to help people sleep.
text: Benzodiazepines can be prescribed by doctors and are legal if used as prescribed.
text: The world's biggest drug-addiction problem is posed by a group of drugs, the benzodiazepines, which are widely prescribed by doctors and taken by countless millions of perfectly ordinary people around the world...
text: Benzodiazepines – sometimes called ‘Benzos’ – are a class of psychoactive drug often prescribed by doctors for short-term treatment of mental health disorders such as anxiety, insomnia and panic disorder.
text: Benzodiazepines , commonly known by the product names of Valium, Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, and Librium, are primarily prescribed by doctors to treat patients with anxiety, insomnia, seizures, panic attacks, and alcohol withdrawal.
text: Benzodiazepines are prescription drugs that cause long-lasting changes in the brain’s ‘reward system’ when taken for long periods of time.
text: Although benzodiazepines are legally prescribed medications, they have considerable abuse potential and their misuse can have detrimental results, particularly when combined with other substances.
text: Benzodiazepines, or “benzos,” are prescription medications used to treat anxiety, panic attacks, muscle spasms, alcohol withdrawal, and seizures 1,2.