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Most anxiolytics are benzodiazepines, and quitting cold turkey can quite literally kill you, especially if you’ve been on a significant dose over time. These dr
by Pharmakon 8y ago
Most anxiolytics are benzodiazepines, and quitting cold turkey can quite literally kill you, especially if you’ve been on a significant dose over time. These drugs raise your seizure threshold, but rapidly quitting creates a backlash of lowered seizure threshold, and you can have far worse outcomes than just rebound anxiety.
- Engineering-MD 8y agoBenzodiazepine withdrawal can be unpleasant, but is very unlikely to kill. As far as I am aware, there is only one case of benzodiazepine withdrawal related death (which is not certain in any case).