Article: COMA COP ON LAZARUS DRUG; EXCLUSIVE Family hope sleeping pill will wake dad after five-year hell.(News)

Byline: By RAYMOND HAINEY

DEVOTED Donna McWilliam is pinning her hopes on a pill nicknamed the Lazarus drug to rouse her fiance from a five-year coma.

Policeman John Alcock will be the first coma patient in Scotland to try zolpidem - normally used as a sleeping pill - which costs just pennies to produce.

Doctors in theUS and South Africa have reported almost 200 patients being miraculously brought out of persistent vegetative state after using the Lazarus drug - named after the biblical figure who rose from the dead.

One South African patient woke from a ...

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