Ativan, Lorazepam News

As if you didn't have anything else to worry about, The Washington Post has a timely warning for the anxiety-prone : Anti-Anxiety Drugs Raise New Fears .

A lawsuit accusing a local hospital of negligence continues in Weakley County Circuit Court this week.

Accused swindler Allen Stanford turned to alcohol to deal with the stress of being accused of massive fraud by the U.S. government, but is now taking an anti-anxiety medication that "has proven beneficial," his attorney said in a court filing.

Q: About a month ago, I started having nighttime anxiety and sleeplessness. My doctor suggested that I take one- half tablet of Klonopin to help with this issue.

Not much is mentioned about the phenomenon of misusing or abusing medication. The health care system is over burdened with patients disclosing aches, pains, anxieties, grief, etc.

I seldom have a sleepless night but remember an occasion when I had difficulty falling asleep.

Q. I helped care for tutu who fell, fractured her hip, and died nine days later from a blood clot in her leg that went to her lungs.

An Air Force nurse charged with killing three terminally ill patients handled a chart with medication orders that doctors denied writing and were administered in doses that are usually fatal, hospital staff testified Wednesday.

More Treatment News May 21, 2009 Ninety-eight percent of people with HIV on a regimen containing efavirenz tested false positive for benzodiazepines - prescription sedatives - on a widely used drug test, according to study results published online in Clinical Infectious Diseases .

Authorities say eight students at a Southern California high school have been hospitalized after taking pills that a student brought to school.

Henry Ford Hospital is embarking on an unusual study intending to reduce brain damage or death of patients resulting from prolonged seizures before arriving at the hospital.

The girlfriend of a Covington County Jail inmate was arrested Saturday after she allegedly furnished drugs to her boyfriend while he worked as a trustee.

Britney Spears has a new fear - she's worried that her dad is drugging her.The singer, 27, is currently under the conservatorship of her father, Jamie Spears.

Ativan : Used to treat anxiety disorders. Side effects can include lethargy, dizziness, weakness, unsteadiness, memory loss.

Counseling and retraining, not punishment, are the best methods for reducing the medication error rate at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital, state officials say.

In a YouTube video, Iraq war veteran Jake Jacobs walks out on stage and dumps a pile of prescription drug bottles out of his backpack.

A 74-year-old stroke victim was likely among the patients an Air Force nurse is accused of intentionally overdosing at Wilford Hall Medical Center's intensive care unit.

Upon returning from Iraq, 23-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Michael Lucey suffered episodes of such intense war-induced rage that they often led to him needing to be consoled by his parents, who would rock him back to normalcy in their laps.

Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern and two psychiatrists supplied the former Playboy playmate with excessive amounts of drugs before she died of an accidental overdose two years ago, authorities said ...

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