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Sleeping Pills, Tranquilizers, Addiction Recovery Institute:"Common sleeping pills include: Ambien, Sonata, Restoril, Dalmane Common tranquilizers include: Ativan, Halcion, Rohypnol, Valium, Klonopin, Roofies, Tranks, and Xanax (a particularly fast acting and extremely addicting tranquilizer) Basics: Tranquilizers help to calm the central nervous. When used as prescribed it helps pain sufferers manage their pain. The acetaminophen or aspirin in these tablets can lead to liver and kidney problems if taken in large quantities or for longer than their intended purpose. The aspirin can also lead to gastrointestinal bleeding."
Addiction Recovery Institute 244 Madison Ave, Suite 373 New York, NY 10016
212-223-3600 info@detox24.com
http://www.detox24.com/drug_information/sleeping_pills.html

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Sleeping-Pills.net, Altruis Biomedical Network:"Insomnia occurs in more than 50% of the population at some time. It tends to occur more frequently with advancing age and is more prevalent in women than in men. Insomnia is the inability to obtain sleep of sufficient length or quality to produce refreshment upon awaking. It can manifest as difficulty falling asleep, difficulty remaining asleep, early morning awakening, or sleep that is not restorative. Continued insomnia results in reduced productivity, increased risk of accidents, decreased productive behavior and increased risk of excessive alcohol (or other depressant) use. (Use of alcohol to induce sleep is counterproductive because even though it may induce sleep, it interferes with the stages of deep sleep that are important for refreshment and regenerative processes.)"
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Sleeping Aids, CNN Interactive:"Sleeping pills can provide a temporary aid in providing sounder sleep and improving alertness the following day. Sleeping pills should however, be taken only for a short time as they tend to lose effectiveness when taken nightly for more than a few weeks. Also, dependency on the drug may develop. Over-the-counter sleeping pills may cause restlessness in some people, and some prescription sleep medications may bring about grogginess in the morning."
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/indepth.health/sleeping.conditions/sleepaids.html

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What about Sleeping Pills? Medformation.com:"While it may be tempting to take over-the-counter sleeping pills to relieve chronic insomnia, the practice is controversial. The long-term effectiveness of these medications is not proven, and there is always the possibility of side effects. If you suffer from insomnia, it's a better idea to talk with your doctor about other types of changes you can make first, such as diet, exercise, sleeping schedule, type of mattress you use, etc. Anyone who takes sleeping pills should do so under close evaluation of a physician."
http://www.medformation.com/mf/pharmacy.nsf/Pharm/What_about_Sleeping_Pills

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Ask the Medical Experts - Insomnia & Sleeping Pills, Medinfosource.com:"Six years ago my doctor prescribed me sleeping pills for my insomnia. Now, he suggests over-the-counter medication. Will they affect my health? Are there any problems associated with prolonged use of over-the-counter sleep aids?"
http://www.medinfosource.com/expert/exp2061499b.html

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Sleeping pills – Curse or cure for insomnia? Mind.org:"Sleeplessness is extremely common and can be brought on by a range of different factors, including stress, ill health, excessive caffeine or changes to lifestyle. An estimated 16 million prescriptions of the most common types of sleeping pills are issued each year. This is despite guidelines issued in 1988 warning doctors that people can become highly dependent on sleeping pills and that they should only be used for short periods."
http://www.mind.org.uk/press-room/press_page.asp?ID=97

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A Need for Sleeping Pills? Good Housekeeping:"Sometimes I have problems sleeping. Should I ask my doctor about taking sleeping pills? I figure I should try to tough it out, but I'm not sure."
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Tranquillizers and sleeping pills, Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto Canada :"Tranquillizers are depressant drugs that slow down the central nervous system (CNS), and thus are similar to such other CNS depressants as alcohol and barbiturates. The term "major tranquillizer" was formerly applied to drugs used to treat severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia. However, these drugs are now more commonly called neuroleptics; their action specifically relieves the symptoms of mental illness, and they are rarely misused for other purposes. This paper therefore deals with the anti-anxiety agents, or anxiolytics (formerly called "minor" tranquillizers)."
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Tranquilizers and Sleeping Pills, Drug Addiction & Advice Project:"Drug Class: Central Nervous System Depressants: Tranquilizers are depressant drugs that slow down the central nervous system (CNS), and thus are similar to such other CNS depressants as alcohol and barbituates. The term "major tranquilizer" was formerly applied to drugs used to treat severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia. However, these drugs are now more commonly called neuroleptics; their action specifically relieves the symptoms of mental illness, and they are rarely misused for other purposes. This paper therefore deals with the anti-anxiety agents, or anxiolytics (formerly called "minor" tranquilizers)." http://www.daap.ca/factsontranquilizers.html

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Sleeping Pills, Fairview For You:"Can’t sleep? Take a pill. Need to stay awake? Take a pill. Can’t stay awake because of the pill you took to sleep because of the pill you took to stay awake? Take a pill. . . Millions of Americans use sleeping pills, some regularly, some occasionally. Others use pills to stay awake. Are these pills good for us? Doctors and pharmacists agree they’re not and can be the beginning of a dangerous cycle."
http://www.fairview.org/foryou/stories/pill4pill.htm

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Sleeping pills and tranquillizers, Division of Aging and Seniors, Health Canada:"Sleeping pills and tranquillizers are medicine which may help your anxiety stress sleeping problems They are often called sedatives nerve pills muscle relaxants Although sleeping pills and tranquillizers may help you to feel calm and help you to sleep during a crisis, they should only be taken for a short time. These drugs do not solve your loneliness, anxiety or sleeping problems because they treat symptoms and not causes."
Division of Aging and Seniors Health Canada
Address Locator 1908A1 Tunney's Pasture Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1B4
Telephone: (613) 952-7606 Fax: (613) 957-7627 E-mail: seniors@hc-sc.gc.ca
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/seniors-aines/pubs/sleep/en/sleep-e.htm

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October 2000: SLEEPING PILLS: Fact and Fiction, Better Nights for Better Days:"People have used potions and pills to make them sleep for centuries - sometimes effectively, sometimes disastrously. Many people would probably rather "take something" than investigate a complex problem, physical or psychological."
http://www.mdausa.org/publications/Quest/q75sleepingpills.html

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Limit Your Use of Sleeping Pills, Powersleep.org:"If possible, you should avoid sleeping pills and over-the-counter sleep remedies. They make you drowsy and appear to induce better sleep. But in reality they lead to disturbed. fragmented sleep. Natural sleep is always best."
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Waking nightmare: Dr Mark Porter explains why reaching for the sleeping tablets can lead to problems even worse than insomnia.:"Insomnia can be broadly defined as an inability to obtain adequate sleep. And is an ongoing and serious problem for at least 20 per cent of the British population. Most don't seek medical help or take any form of medication, but sleeping aids are still big business - one in 50 adults takes prescribed sleeping tablets and one in 100 self-medicates with over -the -counter remedies. The modern approach to insomnia is to treat it as a symptom, not a condition. In other words, doctors should be looking for and removing underlying physical and psychological causes (everything from depression and anxiety to thyroid problems and painful arthritis) rather than reaching for the prescription pad and dishing out "sleepers". Unfortunately, shortage of time and patient demand means that drugs are overused."
http://www.guide-information.org.uk/guide/dr_sleep.htm

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On the Use of Sleeping Pills, Information for patients---Important measures by Authorities:"I wrote on this column three weeks ago that the government of UK and The Netherlands already ban Halcion. Several days later, the manufacturer claimed that it was not true. I examined carefully and found that the prohibition against the sale of Halcion was lifted after they banned it for ‘80~’90 in The Netherlands and ‘91~’93 in UK. However, it has never been remarketed in UK because of strict conditions for the manufacturer and it has been rarely sold in the Netherlands because it is not reimbursed by the insurance."
http://www.npojip.org/english/sasahi/20010707.htm

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