By NICHOLAS BAKALAR MARCH 27, 2014, 3:57 PM A large study has linked several common anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills to an increased risk of death, although it’s not certain the drugs were the cause. For more than seven years, researchers followed 34,727 people who filled prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications like Valium and Xanax, or […]
Zolpidem and Driving Impairment — Identifying Persons at Risk Ronald H. Farkas, M.D., Ph.D., Ellis F. Unger, M.D., and Robert Temple, M.D. N Engl J Med 2013; 369:689-691August 22, 2013DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1307972 Zolpidem (Ambien, Sanofi) is the most widely used prescription drug for insomnia and one of the most commonly used drugs in the United States. […]
Use of Sleeping Pills Associated With Greater Death Risk BY BRIDGET M. KUEHN on FEBRUARY 28, 2012 From news@JAMA: http://newsatjama.jama.com/2012/02/28/use-of-sleeping-pills-associated-with-greater-death-risk/ Patients taking prescription sleeping pills, even if they received only a short-term supply, have a more than 3 times greater risk of dying over a few years than a matched group of patients not taking […]