Death has been examined as a possible adverse consequence of the use of benzodiazepine drugs. Rather than limit ourselves to drug overdose cases, we have analyzed unselected blood specimens by a technique sensitive enough to detect therapeutic use as well. The subpopulation thus identified was found to have a number of interesting characteristics not shared by typical coroners' cases. These features are described and discussed in detail in the text.
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Kelly et al. (1982) studied this question.