As most Americans are aware, overprescribing opioids has become a national epidemic over the past two decades. According to the Centers for Disease Control, two-thirds of all drug overdose cases involve an opioid, and opiate-related overdoses killed more than 47,000 people in 2017.
However, fewer people recognize how dramatically benzodiazepine prescriptions have increased within that same period, and that doctors frequently prescribe opioids and benzodiazepines like Ativan, Valium and Xanax together. Statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse indicate more than 30 percent of overdoses involving opioids also involve benzodiazepines.
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