You should seek medical advice from a physician who knows you as it pertains to you personally.
However, on the last decade we have learned a lot about benzos. They are not great drugs. We used to use a lot of versed preoperatively (Midaazolam is an amnestic) and we used to use it as a drip on critical care for ventilated patients. Some really great work came out demonstrating how benzos promote delirium which can be fatal on critically ill adults. As it turns out about 5% of patients wake up off the chain from anesthesia and we figured it out that it was emergence delirium because of benzo.
They are also quite addictive. And in combination with opioids are quite deadly. Once in a while you can use them IV to stop seizures, but generally we have other meds for prophylaxis and for treatment of seizures
In general, I rarely I’d ever use benzos in my practice anymore. They have an awful lot of bad effects and this study is not surprising given what we have known about this class of drugs.
Jordan Peterson’s experience with Benzo’s certainly rocketed the potential dangers of these drugs into public consciousness.
Not something to take lightly, that’s for sure.