Decades of unscrupulous prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines has led to twin epidemics of addiction and overdose, with approximately 2.5 million adults in the U.S. suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD) and a staggering 80,000 lives lost annually to overdoses.
Between 1996 and 2013, benzodiazepine prescriptions surged by 67%, paralleling a quadrupling of the overdose death rate, highlighting the growing issue of prescription sedative misuse among 2.2 million U.S. adults.
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