Welcome to Rosam Franklin University College of Pharmacy Top 200 Drugs podcast.

This podcast is produced by the pharmacy faculty members to supplement study material for students learning the top 200 drugs.

We're hoping that our real-life clinical pearls and discussions from practicing pharmacists

will help you study for your next drug quiz.

And now on to the show.

Welcome to spring week two of Rosalind Franklin University's Top 200 Dr.

Podcast.

I'm your co-host Dr. Kane.

This is Dr. Holmes.

I'm Dr. Weatherton.

And this week we'll be discussing sleep agents, hypnotics, benzodiazepines, and neuropathic

pain medications.

So without further ado, we're going to start with the first drug class.

We have four top 200 drugs and they're all benzodiazepines. So before we get into those specific drugs, let's just talk about benzodiazepines as a drug class as a whole.

So all benzodiazepines are indicated for four different indications.

Anxiety, sleep, muscle relaxant, and seizure disorders.

All benzodiazepines can do all four properties, but are more

commonly used for probably anxiety and or sleep.

Speaking of four, when I think of the benzos, I remember that they're all scheduled for

as far as the DEA is concerned as well. So why would the DA give them a schedule for classification?

As we know, a lot of benzodiazepines are commonly abused.

They do have straight value and they have an addiction potential based on their potential to cause

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