Hundreds of thousands of Dutch taking addictive sleeping pills for longer than safe
Hundreds of thousands of Netherlands residents have been taking addictive sleeping pills and tranquilizers for longer than is safe. Patients should take medicines from the benzodiazepine group for no longer than two weeks, but hundreds of thousands take them for months on end. Over 125,000 people have been taking these pills for over a year, Trouw reports based on figures from the Foundation of Pharmaceutical Characteristics (SFK).
Source: nltimes.nl