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This is taken from an article in My Paper published in Singapore today, which i happened to see it when my fren was reading the newspaper today. The original source in Chinese is written below.

步姐听力受损疑是服药导致

滨崎步目前透过官网自爆左耳失聪, 引起各界同情与关心.
日本 <Flash> 周刊访问曾为步姐看诊的医生与院方人员, 发现她在 2000 年左耳患上突发性内耳障碍前, 曾服用抗忧郁, 失眠的药物 Depas, 怀疑她可能因长期服药的副作用, 导致左耳失去听觉.
去年底滨崎步上 <红白歌唱大赛>, 左耳曾戴着贴满水晶的耳机麦克风演唱, 有网友猜测可能是助听器.
她的医生向 <Flash> 透露: “她就医时, 已经错过病发后两个月的治疗黄金期.”
不愿具名的院方人士指出, 她长期服用抗忧郁, 失眠药物 Depas, 有可能因该药引发副作用, 导致左耳失聪.
<Flash> 追问她的就诊与用药纪录, 但院方以 “保护病患个人隐私” 为由拒绝.
台湾媒体就此访问了当地医生, 台北国泰医院心科主治医生邱伟哲表示, Depas 在日本, 欧洲等地是处方药. 患者若是长期服用, 可能会发生嗜眠, 肢体无力, 间发性兴奋等副作用.
但医生也指出: “就目前医学文献无法断定长期服用或用量过多会导致听觉受损.”
另一方面, 也有媒体质疑滨崎步是为新专辑 <Guilty> 炒话题, 日本 <日刊现代> 网站指出, 她每次有新闻都刚好搭上新作品, 未免太巧合.

This is the translation done by me.

Drug suspected to cause ayumi hearing problem

Currently, ayumi has revealed that she had lost her hearing in her left ear in her official website, gaining public sympathy and concern.
Japan <Flash> magazine interviewed the doctor and hospital staffs who have seen ayumi as a patient, discovered that before her left ear had internal obstructions in the year 2000, she had taken anti-depressive, anti-insomniac drug called Depas, and suspected that due to taking that drug for prolonged periods of time, the side effect may have caused her left ear to lose its function.
Last year when ayumi attended the singing competition红白歌唱大赛her left ear was wearing a microphone earplug covered with crystal when she was singing, some internet people speculate that it was a hearing aid.
Her doctor told <Flash> that when she went for treatment, she had already missed the golden period of treatment, which is 2 months after she had this problem.
An anonymous hospital staff said that due to prolonged periods of taking the anti-depressive, anti-insomniac drug called Depas, it may have caused the side effect, which is lost of hearing in the left ear.
When <Flash> asked about her treatment and medication records, the hospital uses “Protection of the patient’s privacy” as a reason to reject.
The Taiwan media interviewed their local doctor 台北国泰医院心科主治医生邱伟哲 said that Depas is a prescribed medicine in Japan, Europe and other places. If the patient took this drug for prolonged periods of time, can cause 嗜眠, weakness in 4 limbs, excitement and other side effects.
But the doctor also pointed out that currently the medical documents are unable to conclude whether prolonged periods of taking the drug or overdosing can cause hearing to be damaged.
On the other hand, there is also other media who suspects that ayumi is making a news for her new album <Guilty>. A Japan website日刊现代 pointed out that its too big a coincidence that everytime when she has new releases there will always be news about her.

The chinese words are those i cannot translate...kind of angry at wat was written in the last paragraph