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A judge orders a brain-damaged woman to be given Ambien

Interesting. I wasn’t aware that Ambien could lead to victims of severe brain damage to regain consciousness:

A judge has rejected a family’s plea that a 53-year-old woman in a vegetative state should be allowed to die.

He has ordered instead that she should be given a drug that could wake her up.

Theoretically the patient could then spend the rest of her life severely disabled and aware of her condition.

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