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Doctors might be overprescribing sedatives to stroke survivors, a new study warns.
About 5% of people are prescribed a benzodiazepine following a stroke, to help calm anxiety and improve sleep, researchers found. Benzodiazepine meds include Valium, Ativan ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- October 17, 2024
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Benzodiazepines do not appear to increase dementia risk, but could have subtle long-term effects on brain structure, a new study reports.
Researchers found no link between use of the sedative drug and a higher risk of dementia in a group of more than 5,400 adults in the Netherlands, according to findings published July 2 in the journal
Teenagers and young adults who use benzodiazepines to treat insomnia may be at heightened risk of overdose, a new study finds.
Benzodiazepines include anxiety medications like Ativan, Klonopin, Valium and Xanax, as well as prescription sleep aids such as estazolam (ProSom), triazolam (Halcion) and temazepam (Restoril).
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Reacting to the nation's opioid epidemic, doctors in the United States are co-prescribing fewer opioid painkillers and benzodiazepines such as Ativan and Xanax, federal health officials report.
When these drugs are taken together, the odds of an overdose, even a fatal overdose, increase sharply.
However, between 2016 and 2019, co-prescription of the two classes of drugs fell by near...
- Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter
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- June 7, 2022
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An animal tranquilizer, xylazine, is increasingly linked to drug overdose deaths across the United States, health officials say.
According to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, xylazine has turned up in overdose deaths in 25 of 38 states examined. In 2019, xylazine contributed to death in 64% of cases and almost always also involved fentanyl.
The ...
- Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter
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- September 21, 2021
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