422: Ask David: Getting off Benzos; Music and Emotions; Negative Thoughts about the World; and more

924.105 - 960.827 Dr. Matt May

And in the long term, there's a rapid tolerance that develops where you need more and more of the drug to achieve the same amount of reduction of anxiety. So I'm frequently seeing patients who come in after being seen in the emergency department, prescribed a month-long course of benzodiazepine. that works the same way as alcohol. It binds to the same receptor as alcohol, the GABA receptor.