Abstract:Article Title: Park TW, Saitz R, Ganoczy D, Ilgen MA, Bohnert AS. Benzodiazepine prescribing patterns and deaths from drug overdose among US veterans receiving opioid analgesics: case-cohort study. BMJ. 2015 Jun 10;350:h2698.Background: Deaths from prescription medications, particularly opioids, continue to increase in the USA. In fact, 58 % of all drug-related deaths involved pharmaceuticals, and 75 % of these involved an opioid. There is, however, little data concerning the role that benzodiazepines might pl… Show more
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