Survival implications of prescription opioid and benzodiazepine use in lung transplant recipients: Analysis of linked transplant registry and pharmacy fill records.

Background: Prescription opioid and benzodiazepine use have been associated with morbidity and mortality among some groups of solid organ transplant recipients, but implications for outcomes among lung transplant patients are not well described.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using linked national transplant registry and pharmaceutical records to characterize the associations between benzodiazepine and opioid prescription fills in the years before and after lung transplant (2006-2017), with risk-adjusted posttransplant survival (adjusted hazard ratio, aHR).

Results: Among 11,568 recipients, 33.