Caffeine leads to addiction to sleeping remedies

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) claims that caffeine should be included in forbidden substances of the World Anti-Doping Agency. The president of the AOC John Coates notes that caffeine promotes addiction to sleeping tablets and tranquilizers.
It is known that the Australian swimmers who participated at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics took sleeping tablets Stilnox. So, Coates believes that application of caffeine led to intake of Stilnox.
Stilnox is ordinarily sold under the trade name Zolpidem. It is a sleeping remedy that is administered to cure insomnia.
The president of AOC notices that sportspeople use caffeine in order to increase performance. Consumption of this substance leads to insomnia. So, athletes have to apply sleeping tablets in order to cure insomnia.
 The AOC and Swimming Australia want to prohibit usage of caffeine. It is their response to the disgrace linked with Grant Hackett. A physician recommended using Stilnox to this swimmer at the time of the 2003 World Championships. As a result, Grant Hackett became addicted to this sleeping remedy.
Grant Hackett is a famous swimmer. He won numerous competitions, including the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Alan Thompson, the former coach of the Australian Olympic Team, has also confirmed that usage of Stilnox is widely spread among Australian swimmers.
Stilnox was never on the list of forbidden medications. Anti-doping agencies didn’t conduct tests to disclose usage of this drug.
But as for caffeine, earlier it was banned by the WADA. But since it became widely spread and consumed in society, it was excluded from the list of forbidden preparations.
John Fahey, the president of the WADA, states that the WADA made the right decision and excluded caffeine from list of banned medications. He confirmed that caffeine would not be included in the list of forbidden substances again.
However a lot of specialists state that caffeine is a performance enhancer, John Fahey contests this argument. He confirms that caffeine doesn’t influence on performance. John Fahey concludes that no any scientific literature proves capacity of caffeine to increase performance.