MedPage Today (11/22, Monaco) reports, “Using benzodiazepines for sleep disorders was tied to a higher risk for overdose in the six months after starting treatment versus other treatments for commonly used treatments, researchers” concluded. The “cohort study of over 23,000 young adults (mean age 23)” revealed that “those who newly initiated benzodiazepine treatment had a 44% higher risk of drug overdose at six months versus other treatments in an as-treated adjusted analysis.” The findings were published online Nov. 22 in JAMA Network Open.
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