Healio (3/30, Herpen) reports, “Benzodiazepine prescriptions for U.S. military veterans with PTSD declined due to decreased prevalence over a 10-year period,” investigators concluded in a study that “utilized Veterans Health Administration databases between 2009 and 2019 to examine prevalence and incidence of benzodiazepine prescriptions for veterans with PTSD, according to ICD-9/10 criteria.” The findings of the “retrospective observational study” were published online in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
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