Study, May/16: "Anxiety in older adults often goes undiagnosed"

This study acknowledges that benzodiazepine withdrawal may be causing anxiety in an older adult. I haven't come across this sort of acknowledgement very often, and it's good to see. Most of the time, it seems that doctors mistake the anxiety that comes with benzo withdrawal as a sign that a person's "original problem" has returned, and as a result, they prescribe a continued course of the problematic drug.

 

Here's the key line from the abstract:

 

A medication review is warranted, as a number of drugs may be causative (calcium channel blockers, alpha- and beta-blockers, digoxin, L-thyroxine, bronchodilators, steroids, theophylline, antihistamines) or may cause anxiety in withdrawal (e.g. benzodiazepines).

 

Here's the link:

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27180498

 

 

it is good to see

Yes, but I'm never sure if this type of info reaches the people who need to see it. The list of anxiety-causing medications is longer than I would have expected. I doubt many people are warned that meds like antihistamines can cause anxiety.