Availability of prescription zopiclone over the internet

The use of "Z drugs" has recently increased; in 2013-14 zopiclone was the sixth most common drug among enquiries to the UK National Poisons Information Service's online database, TOXBASE. 1 Weich and colleagues noted an increased risk of mortality with hypnotic drugs, 2 amid increasing concern about non-medical misuse. 3 4 Furthermore, people's increasingly consumerist approach to healthcare provision provides new regulatory challenges. 5 We recently managed a patient whose overdose of 100 tablets of 7.5 mg zopiclone, reportedly purchased from an internet site without prescription, highlights these problems.