Wednesday, 21 May 2014

32% of French people pop pills

France’s love of anti-depressants, sleeping pills and other prescription medication has reached new heights according to figures showing one in three adults in the country use some form of psychotropic drug.
A study by France’s National Drug Safety Agency (ANSM) found that 32 percent of French people used such medications in 2013, either on a regular or occasional basis, French daily Le Parisien reported Tuesday.
France has long been known as having a high prescription drug use rate – numerous studies have put France among the world’s top consumers of antidepressants, for example – but these latest figures have sparked fresh warnings by health experts over the nation’s pill-popping habit.   
     Val says You have to blame Doctors for handing out these pills. Yet I know it happens in England:  when Mum moved into a residential home and we tidied out the house we found bags full of Temazepam a sleeping pill. Earlier Mum and Dad had been robbed and the thieves took family jewels and some bags of this drug. Surely more care by Doctors and pharmacists should be taken.

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