Opioid Pain or Cough Medicines Combined With Benzodiazepines: Drug Safety Communication – FDA Requiring New Boxed Warnings About Serious Risks and Death

Audience: Pharmacy, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Neurology, Family Practice ISSUE: FDA review has found that the growing combined use of opioid medicines with benzodiazepines or other drugs that depress the central nervous system (CNS) has…