Emerging research finds that despite years of warnings that older adults shouldn’t take benzodiazepine medications that put them at risk of injury and death, many primary care doctors are still prescribing them.
A new study by University of Michigan mapped the prescription pattern of benzodiazepines in the United States, county by country. Investigators discovered a wide variation as some regions, especially the Deep South and rural western states, had three times the level of sedative...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/11/12/despite-warnings-benzos-still-prescribed-to-older-adults/139617.html
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