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Antianxiety drugs — often more deadly than opioids — are fueling the next drug crisis in U.S.

Posted on August 3, 2018

Discusses the rise in benzodiazepines prescriptions that overdose deaths involving benzodiazepines have quadrupled between 2002 and 2015, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. 

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