A doctor at an ER thought it was a wise choice to give me a prescription for a benzodiazepine, which is a family of medication for people with anxiety, chronic pain, depression, joint pain, seizures and headaches. I only took the medication for my chronic pain on a daily basis like it recommended and boy was it an extremely hard medication to wean off and the withdrawals from this type of medication lasts forever. Please be very wise when doctors want to give you any kind of medication, do not trust them. They work for Big Pharma and can care less about helping you. Research everything! Benzodiazepines are xanax, klonopin, ativan and librium.