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Sleeping pills to be labelled narcotics
Stilnox sleeping pills will be reclassified as a stupéfiant (narcotic)...
...and subject to strict rules including having to have an ordonnance sécurisée prescription in a hard-to-forge format.
People are said to have been abusing them, taking too many and becoming dependent.