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Sleeping drug linked to deadly side-effects
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 19/02/2008
Reporter: Deborah Cornwall
There's growing debate over claims some commonly prescribed sleeping pills are linked to bizarre side effects and even death. Now one family is campaigning to ban them after their daughter died after jumping off a bridge.
Transcript
KERRY O'BRIEN: The drug Stilnox is one of the most popular sleeping pills in the world, but after several years of controversy it's under review by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
In the past few years there has been a growing number of reports to a national consumer hotline linking the drug to up to 14 deaths and a range of bizarre side effects, from hallucinations to sleep driving.
The TGA last year upgraded its warnings to Stilnox users. But many health professionals believe the drug is now being over-prescribed and often misused by patients, and such is the concern the TGA will tomorrow consider whether Stilnox needs to be rescheduled as a drug of abuse.
STILNOX®
zolpidem tartrate
Consumer Medicine Information
WARNING: ZOLPIDEM MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH UNUSUAL AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS BEHAVIOURS WHILST APPARENTLY ASLEEP. THESE HAVE INCLUDED SLEEP WALKING, DRIVING MOTOR VEHICLES AND OTHER BIZARRE BEHAVIOURS. SOME MEDICINES MAY INTERACT WITH ZOLPIDEM AND PARTICULAR CAUTION IS NEEDED WITH OTHER DRUGS THAT MAY ALSO ACT ON THE BRAIN; BEFORE YOU TAKE ZOLPIDEM REFER TO THE "TAKING OTHER MEDICINES" SECTION BELOW OR ASK YOUR DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST. YOU MUST NOT DRINK ALCOHOL WHEN YOU TAKE ZOLPIDEM. DO NOT TAKE ZOLPIDEM FOR MORE THAN 4 WEEKS. IF YOUR SLEEP PROBLEMS CONTINUE, CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR.