UK rise in deaths from Xanax must be tackled at root cause

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Jack Cunliffe’s upcoming research, in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London and the University of Montreal, shows a rise in the popularity of sedative drugs on darknet markets, with the UK level increasing at the quickest pace, and also that there has been an increase in the purchasing of the most potent sedative alprazolam – where in the USA is has been the most common version all along. However, diazepam, the ‘traditional’ sedative prescribed in the UK, is still the by some way the most popular.  See more at the University’s News Centre.