Evidence-Based Practice Assignment Student`s Name Institutional Affiliation Evidence-Based Practice Assignment Annotated Bibliography Question: A patient is diagnosed with anxiety, are benzodiazepines as good as cognitive behavioral therapy in decreasing panic attacks? Ahmed, M., Westra, H. A., & Stewart, S. H. (2011). A self-help handout for benzodiazepine discontinuation using cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice , 15(3):317-324. The authors are concerned that, as much as benzodiazepines` prescription rates may be declining, still there are evident that they are massively prescribed for the treatment of various kind of anxiety disorders. The reason behind this is due to the fact that many anxiety patients necessitate support or close assistance in successfully discontinuing of the benzodiazepines. As such, experts in the health care have specifically developed and proposed cognitive behavioral therapy approach over benzodiazepines to solve the risks posed by the latter. Importantly, there is an evidence base findings that now underpins the use o