Important facts about benzodiazepines

Prescribing benzodiazepines requires us to be very clear about a few key facts about each medication–its half-life, its “equivalent dose” when converting from one benzodiazepine to another, whether it has active metabolites, whether it is metabolized by a CYP450 enzyme or not, and, it is, which enzyme it is metabolized by. Some key facts are…