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Someone took a fake prescription into a pharmacy in northern Taiwan on Nov. 17 and walked away with a three-month supply of the controlled sleep medication zolpidem, or about 300 tablets, media reports said. Police eventually apprehended the people behind the scam. However, what first appears to be a simple case of fraud is actually symptomatic of the broader problem of sleeping pill abuse in Taiwan. With more than 23 million residents, Taiwan is ranked 57th in the world in terms of population, but the number of benzodiazepines taken by Taiwanese is startling. National Health Research Institutes data show that from 2011

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