Talk:Z-drug

Z as in Zzzzzzzzz?
Seriously, if the origin of the name is known, adding it would improve the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.134.183.57 (talk) 17:14, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It is just because the first letter of the drugs starts with Z. Trying to source it is another thing. :)-- Literature geek |  T@1k?  20:25, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

zen is five — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.29.215.40 (talk) 06:04, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Z-drugs are an acceptable name "Newer non-benzodiazepines zolpidem and zopiclone ("Z-drugs") " (that is not an all inclusive list for Z-drugs, but the rest of article uses the term, "z-drugs" source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23904824 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justababy (talk • contribs) 01:11, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Mortality Risks of Using Z-Drugs
The following content had been removed from the article by someone, allegedly because it wasn't MEDRS compliant. --Hyperforin (talk) 03:21, 16 May 2016 (UTC) A large-scale, retrospective, matched cohort study that examined data from 273 primary care practices in the UK found that use of Z-drugs (which include Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata, and other drugs) was associated with "significantly increased" risk of death within 7 years after their first use. Risk of death for users of these drugs in just the first year following first use was more than triple the risk of death for someone who had never used them. (Weich A, Pearce HL, Droft P, Singh S, Crome I, Bashford J, Frisher M. "Effect of anxiolitic and hypnotic drug prescriptions on mortality hazards: retrospective cohort study." British Medical Journal BMJ2014;348:g1996.  doi: http//dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g1996 [Published March 2014]

Merger discussion
I proposed to merge with Benzodiazepine

The two terms seem to be synonyms (or at least, that's how they are currently defined in the pages).7804j (talk) 16:20, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 16:49, 18 May 2020 (UTC)