Justice says B.C. man who stabbed wife in back was ‘effectively asleep’, not guilty
A B.C. man who literally stabbed his wife in the back on Easter Monday in 2017 was on too intense of a prescription drug cocktail to have done so voluntarily, the provincial supreme court ruled.
The two were sleeping separately because Perignon was experiencing severe insomnia. He’d had trouble sleeping since he was a teenager and had treated it bromazepam, a drug in the benzodiazepine family, up until the summer of 2016. It was then that the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons passed new regulations prohibiting the prescription of benzodiazepines along with opioids.
Over the next nine or so months, Perignon and his doctor tried out a multitude of different medications to try and replace the benzodiazepine and get him sleeping. None of them worked, so they finally resorted to a sedative hypnotic known as zopiclone. It also poses some dangers when combined with opioids.
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