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Guys, doctors can't and shouldn't reveal patients information. HOWEVER, antidepressants are drugs of control, and they need a special kind of prescription that sometimes is retained at the drugstores. Sometimes the physician's doesn't reveal the info, but the drugstores ilegally sell the prescriptions they've gotten hold of to interested people. Usually that happens VERY OFTEN to pharmakeutical industry, because they want to stalk a certain physician to be aware if they're prescribing their products, so they can target him to promote their products. I believe the media could do that. With such prescriptions in possession, they can go and ask an unrelated physician to give them an insight on that drug , plus a possible association with hearing loss , and the physician will do without it being illegal or breaking the secret.

Depas (Etizolam) is a benzodiazepine. I haven't heard of drugs from that class ever causing permanent hearing loss. If ayu actually did take it, there's actually a chance she took it because of the ear problem (due to the vertigo) since you can use benzodiazepines to treat them.

That article isn't exactly impossible to be, but yep, it really makes us skeptical about it.