A scoping review included diazepam and lorazepam among abdominal-pain options, but its broad categories require careful clinical interpretation.
What the review assembled
The authors screened 246 records and included 23 reviews addressing five common pain presentations: abdominal pain, back pain, chest pain, fractures, and headache. They assembled a condition-oriented list of pharmaceutical alternatives to opioids.
Benzodiazepines appeared under abdominal pain, including diazepam and lorazepam. The work was a review-based resource, not a new randomized comparison demonstrating that either drug directly relieves all causes of abdominal pain or is superior to an opioid.
A broad symptom category is not a diagnosis
Abdominal pain has many causes, and an intervention relevant to one clinical context may be inappropriate in another. The authors acknowledged that broad anatomical categories do not necessarily identify the best treatment for specific disorders within them. Sedation, anxiolysis, and analgesia also describe different effects.
For review of a prescription, obtain the actual working diagnosis, treatment purpose, response, and accompanying medicines. Inclusion in an alternatives list cannot by itself establish appropriate use, absence of risk, or adequate pain treatment in an individual. The paper is useful for mapping possible approaches while preserving the need for diagnosis-specific evidence.
Source paper
Original analysis of the supplied journal article, identified as PMC13246177.
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