Examples of benzodiazepine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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 For one scan, the team gave each person a low dose of Lorazepam, a benzodiazepine known to enhance the effect of GABA. — Max G. Levy, Wired, 22 Nov. 2021 Bryce Pardo, a drug policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, said even though Xanax is a benzodiazepine, traffickers might be substituting fentanyl because of its similar sedating effect. — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2021 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 On the show, the green pills are called Xanzolam, likely a fictional version of Librium, a benzodiazepine sedative similar to Xanax that was commonly prescribed in the ’60s. — Lilly Dancyger, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Nov. 2020 However, as Newsweek reports, Xanzolam bears many striking similarities to chlordiazepoxide, a benzodiazepine that was marketed as Librium. — Andrea Park, Marie Claire, 27 Oct. 2020 Overdose deaths involving benzodiazepines more than quadrupled between 1999 and 2013, according to a study published in 2016 in the American Journal of Public Health. — Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 25 May 2020 See More

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“Benzodiazepine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/benzodiazepine. Accessed 17 May. 2022.

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