Drop in new opioid prescriptions to benzodiazepine patients could reduce overdoses, study suggests

The mixing of opioid medications and benzodiazepines has been found by the National Institutes of Health to be a significant factor in opioid overdose deaths. But a new study suggests that co-prescriptions of benzodiazepines and opioids in the US are on the decline.
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