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Soporific drug helps eating disorder (8,7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sleeping draught

'soporific' is the definition.
(sleeping draught is a kind of soporific)

'drug helps eating disorder' is the wordplay.
'disorder' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'diseased' mean this (I've seen this in other clues)).
'drug'+'helps'+'eating'='drughelpseating'
'drughelpseating' is an anagram of 'SLEEPING-DRAUGHT'.

(Other definitions for sleeping draught that I've seen before include "This should make for a quiet night" , "Soporific" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian and The Telegraph.
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