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Steep Climb In Benzodiazepine Prescribing By Family Doctors

Chill Pill Popularity –

January 25, 2019 – Long-term use of the drugs can cause physical dependence, addiction and death from overdose. “I don’t think people realize that benzodiazepines share many of the same characteristics of opioids,” says Dr. Sumit Agarwal, an internist, primary care physician and researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and one of the authors of the new study.

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