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Article: Town wakes up...to dependency on sleeping tablets.(News Local)
- Article from:
- Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2004
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Byline: Helen Sturdy
A Teesside town has been hailed a national success story after its drive to cut dependence on sleeping tablets.
A campaign to reduce the amount of benzodiazepines prescribed in Hartlepool has led to the biggest drop in prescriptions for the drugs in the country.
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