How to get sleeping pills?
updated the 13 August 2015 à 18:15Learn more on how to stop these pills that claim to sell you dreams but can end up leaving you knocked out.
Valium, Xanax®, Lexomil®, Stilnox®, Imovane® … These most commonly used sleeping pills are part of the great family of benzodiazepines and are related to each other. They reduce the anxiety that results in or accompanies insomnia and promote the release of neurotransmitters that facilitate sleep. But these substances are not as high in quality – far from it, in fact.
A study published in September 2014 showed that people eating certain benzodiazepines for more than three months would see their risk of getting Alzheimer’s increase to 51%*. For now, no causal link has been established because of anxiety or sleep problems. What some are prescribed could also be risk factors for this neurodegenerative disease. However, we know that sleeping pills are part of the cause of vigilance disorders, road accidents and falls, because of their sedative effect that persists in the morning.
SLEEPING PILLS MAY MAKE YOU ADDICTED
And if these drugs often prove effective in the beginning, their benefits on sleep subside within a few weeks. They no longer serve well but can quickly turn into a nightmare, as physical and psychological addictions take hold. To avoid getting into the vicious cycle of addiction, health authorities recommend not to take them for more than thirty days. However, the majority of users would be under treatment for seven months on average** and specialists surveyed daily encounters with patients who take these pills for years.
*British Medical Journal.
**High Health Authority.
WHERE TO FIND A GOOD SLEEP SPECIALIST?
Look for your nearest university hospital sleep center.
Maureen Diament and Nur Syazana H.
