Simultaneous use of non-benzo sleeping pills and anti-epilepsy drugs - gabapentinoids-- increases drug overdose deaths

With an alarming rise in the number of prescriptions filled for non-benzo sleeping/z-drugs and anti-epilepsy gabapentinoids over the last two decades, researchers aimed to fill in the gap in knowledge in the proportion of overdose deaths involving those medications. They found that overdose deaths involving these drugs increased more than three-fold between 2000 and 2018. Until now there was little data on overdose deaths involving non-benzodiazepines and gabapentinoids.