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The Independent UK
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Kim Pilling

Nurses drugged stroke patients to ‘keep them quiet’ and found it ‘amusing’, court told

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Patients on a hospital stroke unit were drugged with sleeping pills to “keep them quiet and compliant”, a jury has heard.

One of the sedatives said to have been used was Zopiclone, which is potentially life-threatening if given inappropriately.

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