Study, Aug/16: Prescribers' Perspectives on Reducing Opioid & Benzodiazepines...

The full title of this American study is "Survey of Primary Care and Mental Health Prescribers' Perspectives on Reducing Opioid and Benzodiazepine Co-Prescribing Among Veterans."

Here's a quote from the "Results" section of the abstract:

"More than 40% of both prescriber groups indicated that coprescribing continues because of beliefs that patients appear stable without adverse events and tapering/discontinuation is too difficult."

Not helpful. Downright dangerous, actually.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27558857