New Coprescription of Opioids and Benzodiazepines and Mortality Among Veteran Affairs Patients With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

CONCLUSIONS: New coprescription of opioids and benzodiazepines was associated with increased all-cause mortality and overdose death compared with new prescription of benzodiazepines only, opioids only, or neither medication and increased circulatory disease-related death relative to neither medication. PMID: 31294933 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research