Doctors should avoid co-prescribing benzodiazepines to opioid dependent patients
Sunday, December 1, 2019 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Doctors should avoid co-prescribing benzodiazepines to opioid dependent patients who are being treated with methadone or buprenorphine, also known as opioid agonist treatment (OAT), due to a three-fold increase in risk of overdose death, according to a new study.