Benzodiazepines are CNS-depressing medications that are commonly used to treat anxiety - and sometimes, seizure activity. If you see a question asking about a drug that ends in '-zepam' or '-zolam', you know it's asking you about a benzodiazepine! We can break these medications down into short, intermediate, and long-acting based on how quickly they will start working and how long they will stick around in our client's body. If our client is over-sedated from too much of one of these medications

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