Child and adolescent benzodiazepine exposure and overdose in the United States: 16 years of poison center data.

Recently, there has been an increase in prescription drug abuse and related fatalities. Although opioid analgesics are commonly implicated, there have been significant increases in the prevalence of benzodiazepine exposures and overdoses. To describe national trends in pediatric benzodiazepine exposures from 2000 to 2015.