SCARY SHIT! Using Sleeping pills to wake up those in vegetative state (COMA)

[Young]

Sleeping drug breaks man's 3-year coma

A 28-year-old South African man who has been comatose since an accident three years ago is able to wake up with the unlikely help of a sleeping medication.

Louis Viljoen was hit by a truck on a highway in 2003, and has been in a persistent vegetative state since with massive head injuries.

But The Daily Mirror said he recently became restless, and Dr. Wally Nel prescribed the common prescription drug Zolpidem to calm him down.

Instead, Viljoen's eyes fluttered and he awoke, the newspaper said.

The report said his brain function is improving slowly, and he is given half a dose of Zolpiden in the morning and again at noon to keep him awake for eight hours a day before he lapses back into a coma.

Nel said Viljoen talks and recognizes friends, but doesn't understand why he is hospitalized.

In July, the British firm ReGen Therapeutics will begin six months of clinical trials on 30 coma patients to see if the drug works on them too, the Mirror said.

Copyright 2006 by United Press International

How scary is this shit? It's happening all over the world now. People in Coma's are being awoken when they are giving sleeping pills...but as soon as the pill wears off the person slips back into Coma.

[brizzad]

this was posted like 10 times over the past few weeks :food-smil

[StuartD]

Seems kinda sci-fi'ish... hard to believe. But there have certainly been stranger things in this world.

[BusterBunny]

they give uppers to a.d.d. patients to calm them down so it doesn't seem all that odd that the reverse would work for comas....

[JD]

Originally Posted by BusterBunny

they give uppers to a.d.d. patients to calm them down so it doesn't seem all that odd that the reverse would work for comas....

LOL speaking of ADD. My buddy mark had adhd in high school and he did a line of coke and fell asleep Funniest shit I ever saw