Most of the fear and misinformation regarding flumazenil, I think comes from conflating two very different situations. Rapid detox with flumazenil was designed for people on catastrophically high doses of benzodiazepines, where the goal is simply to prevent death. That context has almost nothing to do with using low-dose flumazenil for someone who is already off benzodiazepines but suffering from protracted withdrawal (PAWS/BIND) months or even years later. Flumazenil itself is not the problem. The problem is that clinics, doctors, and online forums keep treating these as the same thing, and they are not.