Meds and auto accidents

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MEDS & AUTO ACCIDENTS

Friday, October 23, 1998

The British medical journal Lancet recently published a study about

antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, sleeping medications, and

automobile accidents. The study found that patients taking anti-anxiety

drugs like Valium are three times more likely to have car accidents. The

study found that the increased rate of accidents occurs even when the

patients don't actually feel drowsy from the medication.

However, patients taking antidepressants such as Prozac were no more

likely to have car accidents than anyone else. And taking sleeping pills

doesn't appear to increase the risk of accidents either, with one

exception: patients taking the sleeping medication zopiclone had more

accidents than others. The researchers speculated that perhaps zopiclone

takes longer to wear off than other sleeping pills.

One doctor cautioned that it still isn't clear whether Valium and other

anti-depressants cause patients to have more accidents, or whether the

anxiety illness that the drugs are prescribed for actually causes

patients to be more accident-prone.

Source of information: Associated Press

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