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  • noun A nonbenzodiazepine sedative used to treat insomnia.

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Examples

  • The significant effects of other approved medications such as zopiclone, flurazepam, and secobarbital are clearly evident in these types of studies.

    Why Transcept Pharmaceuticals Is Still Undervalued - Seeking Alpha 2011

  • Join us for this provocative and informative program exploring the new class of 'improved' sleeping pills the 'Z drugs' zolpidem/Ambien, zaleplon, and zopiclone.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Sandra K 2008

  • I took another zopiclone on the hopes that it was a miracle drug that would get me 6 hours sleep.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Join us for this provocative and informative program exploring the new class of 'improved' sleeping pills the 'Z drugs' zolpidem/Ambien, zaleplon, and zopiclone.

    Sleeping Pills: More Harm than Good Sandra K 2008

  • I took another zopiclone on the hopes that it was a miracle drug that would get me 6 hours sleep.

    April 1, 2008 4:15p.m. (Day one) the train to/from Tokyo Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • When I take zopiclone my passport to a half-decent night's sleep, I am unable to remember anything that happens almost from the moment I take it to the point I fall asleep.

    Very unexpected side effects of oral sedation Elizabeth McClung 2007

  • It calls the Lunesta "a unique chemical entity and different from zopiclone."

    Behavioral Therapy 1, Sleeping Pills 0 Robert Langreth 2006

  • In the trial, researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway compared a six-week program of so-called cognitive-behavioral therapy CBT to the sleeping pill zopiclone, a drug that is very similar to Sepracor's Lunesta and was originally sold by Sanofi-Aventis in Europe; a third patient-arm got placebo.

    Behavioral Therapy 1, Sleeping Pills 0 Robert Langreth 2006

  • Subjects performed test drives on a placebo, 7.5mg zopiclone as a positive control taken at bedtime 9 hours before driving, on a 3.5mg of Intermezzo taken 3 hours before driving, and then 3.5 mg Intermezzo taken 4 hours before driving.

    Why Transcept Pharmaceuticals Is Still Undervalued - Seeking Alpha 2011

  • In a practical sense, 3.5mg Intermezzo at 4 hours post dose behaved statistically non-inferior to the placebo, and was statistically superior to 7.5mg zopiclone.

    Why Transcept Pharmaceuticals Is Still Undervalued - Seeking Alpha 2011

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