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Known collectively as the Z drugs, zopiclone (a cousin of Lunesta), zolpidem (Ambien) and zaleplon (Sonata) have been touted as the non-addictive alternatives to their benzodiazepine predecessors.
The jury's still out on the controversial issue of benzodiazepines and their possible cause of birth defects. ...
Delirium common among older people after an operation may in some cases be triggered by the use of the painkillers given later. ...
Stays in hospital are a major way of people getting hooked on tranquillizers or sleeping pills (benzodiazepines), according to a recent study. ...
Prescribed tranquillisers are far more toxic, more addictive and kill more people in the UK than all the illegal class A drugs put together.
One of the great tragedies of our times is the terrible legacy of addiction unwittingly created by medicine in its zeal to take away the pain of childbirth. ...
Legal drug addiction is the biggest cancer in our society today. ...
Tranquillisers are only prescibed to people suffering from anxiety, insomnia or mental illness. They are totally safe and innocuous, even when used long term. The only people who ever get addicted ...
We hear so much about medical blunders that it seems unbelievable that a scandal involving more than one million children in the UK alone has been going on under our very noses since 1960. ...