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A consensus committee will develop a protocol (study design), to evaluate the relationship between concomitant opioid and benzodiazepine medication practices at the Department of Veterans Affairs, for treating mental health and combat-related trauma, which potentially led to veteran’s deaths and suicides.
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An Approach to Evaluate the Effects of Concomitant Prescribing of Opioids and Benzodiazepines on Veteran Deaths and Suicides
Consensus Study Report
·2019
Opioid prescriptions for acute and chronic pain increased dramatically from the late 1990s into the current decade in both the civilian and the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense treatment environments. Similarly, prescriptions for benzodiazepines also increased significantly f...
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