A study of data from over 11 million patient records in the General Practice Research Database, “the largest anonymized, longitudinal primary care database in the world,” finds that the 34,727 patients prescribed anxiolytic or hypnotic drugs between 1998 and 2001 were over three times more likely to die over the seven years follow-up period. Data are presented in the British Medical Journal.
Weich, S., Pearce, H., Croft, P., Singh, S.; Effect of anxiolytic and hypnotic drug prescriptions on mortality hazards: retrospective cohort study. British Medical Journal. Online March 19, 2014. doi: 10.1136/bmj.g1996
See:
Benzodiazepines: Disempowering and Dangerous, by Philip Hickey, Ph.D.
