From Name: From Email: To Name: To Email: Optional Message: Benzodiazepine linked to higher risk of overdose death from By Denise A. Valenti In William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," the tragic character states, "To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream — ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come." However, the sleep of death is what close to 15 million adults risked as they filled their sleep, sedative, anxiolytic or anticonvulsant prescriptions containing benzodiazepine. A new study published in the April issue of the American Public Health Association Journal reported an increase in overdose mortality related to benzodiazepine prescriptions between the years 1996 and 2013. more 7701 Las Colinas Blvd., Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063