A new study found a higher mortality rate among veterans who were co-prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines by their doctors ...

A new congressionally mandated report examines how opioid and benzodiazepine prescribing between 2007 and 2019 impacted ...

Veterans who were simultaneously prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) faced an ...

or opioids which are very efficacious but dangerous." Benzodiazepines ("benzos") are a class of depressant drugs that are used as sleeping pills and to treat anxiety and seizures. Professor Gamper ...

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2015;16(2):175-183. Common themes suggested three categories of risk factors associated with IWS: patient-, process-, and system-level factors, which were synthesized into a ...

People prescribed both opioid painkillers and benzodiazepines such as Xanax have a 71 percent increased risk of dying from any cause, according to a new study. Both classes of the drugs slow a ...

The filled and billed prescriptions involved “dangerous and excessive quantities of opioids, prescriptions ... which is made up of an opioid, a benzodiazepine and a muscle relaxant,” the ...