The misprescribing of Z-drugs for insomnia
Scarcely a day goes by without sleep being in the news.One long-running strand concerns media coverage of sleep medicines, particularly the Z-drugs (i.e.Zopiclone and Zolpidem), which have tended over time to receive a bad press.Rising prescription numbers, escalating costs to the NHS, and raised mortality risks all hint at an epidemic of “mispre