How do you approach continued prescribing of benzodiazepines when a patient who is already prescribed benzodiazepines reports concurrent illicit benzodiazepine use?

The management of patients who are prescribed benzodiazepines while concurrently using illicit benzodiazepines has become increasingly complex, particularly with the growing prevalence of synthetic benzodiazepine analogs within the illicit drug supply.

Over the past decade, benzodiazepine prescribin...

I really appreciate and agree with Dr. @Dr. First Last’ thorough and thoughtful response. I was contracted for three years as a medical director for a national non-profit, the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices, and through that work developed and delivered a lot of prescriber and patient-fo...