February 4, 2019 In This Issue IN THE SPOTLIGHT State House Report: MMA Testifies on Gun Violence and Patient Protection Bills MMA Wants Your Feedback: Physician Wellness Survey E-cigarettes Better Than Other Nicotine Replacement Therapies Azar Proposes Shifting Drug Rebates From PBMs to Consumers AMA State Advocacy Summit: 8 Physician Advocacy Wins that Set the Stage for 2019 Researchers Say Outpatient Use of Benzodiazepines Increasing 129th MAINE LEGISLATURE MMA Legislative Call Tuesday, February 5th UPCOMING EVENTS Upcoming Specialty Society Meetings Enrollment Underway for Maine’s Physician Executive Leadership Institute - The Advanced Course - Deadline Extended to February 8, 2019 Webinar Presented by Baystate Financial - Sources of Retirement Income - Tuesday, February 12th Identifying Substance Use Early Saves Lives! - SBIRT with Motivational Interviewing Training - 1-day Sessions Offered on March 2 and April 6 NAMI Maine’s Beyond the Basics in Suicide Prevention Conference - Friday, April 12, 2019 HEALTHCARE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Psychiatric Mental Health NP - Leeds Urgent Care Physician - South Portland, ME PCHC in need of Pediatrician at Multiple Locations! Outpatient Internal Medicine Physician – Bangor, Maine Full-time Board Certified/Board Eligible MD/DO Outpatient Family Medicine - Brunswick, Maine Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner - Nasson Health Care Opportunities at the VA for Volunteer Physicians Volunteer Opportunity with Partners for World Health   Search Back Issues Tools Print-Friendly Article Print-Friendly Newsletter Forward to a Friend Forward Article Email Version Text-only Version   Follow Us:		Researchers Say Outpatient Use of Benzodiazepines Increasing The NPR (1/25, Chatterjee) “Shots” blog reported, “The percentage of outpatient medical visits that led to a benzodiazepine prescription doubled from 2003 to 2015,” research indicated, with “about half” of “those prescriptions” coming “from primary care physicians.” Medscape (1/25, Brooks, Subscription Publication) reported the study also found that “benzodiazepines are often coprescribed with opioids and other sedating medications, frequently for conditions other than anxiety and insomnia,” researchers concluded after analyzing data on “more than 386,000 ambulatory care visits from 2003 through 2015.” The findings were published online Jan. 25 in JAMA Network Open.   < Previous Article | Next Article > [ return to top ]

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