Healio (3/10, Gramigna) reports, “Benzodiazepine or Z-drug treatment was linked to increased risk for nonfatal drug-related poisoning among patients with opioid use disorder,” researchers concluded after analyzing “prescription claims of 23,036 individuals aged 12 to 64 years with opioid use disorder who experienced drug-related poisoning and who had buprenorphine prescriptions and claims data in the IBM MarketScan databases between 2006 and 2016.” The findings of the “case-crossover analysis” were published online March 3 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
Related Links:
— “Buprenorphine treatment may reduce benzodiazepine risks for those with opioid use disorder “Joe Gramigna, Healio, March 10, 2021