I have a lot of professional experience with Ativan as a former psych nurse. It was our main ‘deescalation’ Rx on the wards at Napa State Hospital. What you say about it is correct. Ativan, like it’s sister benzodiazepine Xanax, has a shorter half life than other medications in the class, so when people come off of it they tend to ‘crash’ faster causing irritability and agitation. It’s a very bad medication to give recovering alcoholics because of this because they will tend to self medicate with alcohol when they crash down off the prescribed Rx.
Thank you.