Chunk #0 — Introduction

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Association Between Benzodiazepine Use With or Without Opioid Use and All-Cause Mortality in the United States, 1999-2015.

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Benzodiazepines are among the most widely used medications worldwide and are prescribed for common problems such as anxiety and insomnia.1,2,3 Up to 13% of US adults have reported benzodiazepine use in the last year,4 with ambulatory benzodiazepine prescriptions more than doubling in the last decade.5