Overdose deaths from common sedatives have surged, new study finds
Friday, February 19, 2016 - 17:50
in Health & Medicine
Headlines about America’s worsening drug epidemic have focused on deaths from opioids—heroin and prescription painkillers such as OxyContin. But overdose deaths have also soared among the millions of Americans using benzodiazepine drugs, a class of sedatives that includes Xanax, Valium, and Klonopin, according to a study.