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Old Dec 8, 2007 | 3:41 pm
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Originally Posted by RichardInSF
In China they sold me something called "Zopiclone" cheaply (Lunesta is "eszopiclone"), but when I looked it up online, the side effects listing scared me away from trying it.
Eszopiclone is the active stereoisomer of zopiclone. It exists as a separate drug from zopiclone because of patent reasons; there's no motivation to go through the FDA approval process for an off-patent drug.

AFAIK the side effect profile of the two is the same.
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