Patient/caregiver was educated on the side-effects of using flurazepam as follows:
Short-term memory loss
- Flurazepam carries the risk of inducing temporary short-term memory loss and confusion, when you wake up the following morning, thus compromising safety and leading to falls and accidents.
- Individuals taking flurazepam can develop anterograde amnesia, which is a compromised ability to form new memories after the intake of medication.
Tolerance and addiction
- Individuals using flurazepam can develop tolerance to the dose in due course of time, thus blunting the therapeutic effect.
- The dose of flurazepam should probably be enhanced at this point, to derive the same therapeutic benefit, thus increasing the risk for addiction.
- The risk for addiction is even more in individuals with history of substance/drug abuse, as the craving for the desired effect in these individuals will be high.
