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No, it was the third one - as the TITLE made clear.
What it obviously doesn't deal with is the outcomes of non-fatal overdoses. We don't know how many required hospitalization, how many needed institutionalization. In short, that study by design is always going to under-report. In fact, it even excludes cases where theraputic doses of NITRObenzodiazepines were found to be the only drug in the body.
But the fact that 90% of the fatal benzodiazepine overdoses were due to NITRObenzodiazepines.
THAT is the important bit.
Why elderly? Well, we don't know but what we DO know from UK data is that if a person over 50 years old is prescribed a NITRObenzodiazepine and it apparently works, it's judged safer to keep on prescribing than to attempt detoxification. So that's a rational basis to think Swedish doctors were doing much the same, I would suggest.
What it obviously doesn't deal with is the outcomes of non-fatal overdoses. We don't know how many required hospitalization, how many needed institutionalization. In short, that study by design is always going to under-report. In fact, it even excludes cases where theraputic doses of NITRObenzodiazepines were found to be the only drug in the body.
But the fact that 90% of the fatal benzodiazepine overdoses were due to NITRObenzodiazepines.
THAT is the important bit.
Why elderly? Well, we don't know but what we DO know from UK data is that if a person over 50 years old is prescribed a NITRObenzodiazepine and it apparently works, it's judged safer to keep on prescribing than to attempt detoxification. So that's a rational basis to think Swedish doctors were doing much the same, I would suggest.
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