Tae Woo Park assistant professor, Richard Saitz chair, Dara Ganoczy research health science specialist, Mark A Ilgen associate professor, Amy S B Bohnert assistant professor
Park T W, Saitz R, Ganoczy D, Ilgen M A, Bohnert A S B.
Benzodiazepine prescribing patterns and deaths from drug overdose among US veterans receiving opioid analgesics: case-cohort study
BMJ 2015; 350 :h2698
doi:10.1136/bmj.h2698
Benzodiazepines could also be harmful in monotherapy
Dear Editors,
Other research studies have already demonstrated that benzodiazepines can be addictive and harmful if administered for more than a month.
Apparently, those veterans had been receiving benzodiazepines for longer periods of time.
References
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2435
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/845699
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21992148
http://dw.com/p/1IvVk
http://www.dw.com/en/avoid-sleeping-pills/av-19088646
http://www.racgp.org.au/your-practice/guidelines/drugs-of-dependence-b/4...
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/healthadvice/treatmentswellbeing/benzodiazepine...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMhsPnoIdy4
Competing interests: No competing interests