FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA warns about serious risks and death when combining opioid pain or cough medicines with benzodiazepines; requires its strongest warning

[8-31-2016] A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review has found that the growing combined use of opioid medicines with benzodiazepines or other drugs that depress the central nervous system (CNS) has resulted in serious side effects, including slowed or difficult breathing and deaths.

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm518473.htm

Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - August 31, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news

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