Wash.Post, Feb/16:"Overdoses on anti-anxiety meds such Valium and Xanax are...

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The title of this Washington Post article is "Overdoses on anti-anxiety meds such Valium and Xanax are on the rise".

 

Overdoses involving benzodiazepines are “a public health problem that has gone under the radar,” Marcus Bachhuber, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, said in a statement.

 

The study also found that “overdoses from benzodiazepines have increased at a much faster rate than prescriptions for the drugs, indicating that people have been taking them in a riskier way over time,” Bachhuber said.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/overdoses-on-anti-anxiety-meds-such-valium-and-xanax-are-on-the-rise/2016/02/22/4f6a6d8e-d727-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html