Sleeping pill withdrawal symptoms may include:. People often turn to sleeping pills because they are struggling with insomnia and are suffering physically and psychologically from a severe lack of sleep. Doctors tend to prescribe sleeping pills to people who have severe sleeping disorders, but for many others with less severe sleeping problems, there are alternative treatment methods that are effective.
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Other factors not taken into consideration may be playing a significant role, rather than the single factor chosen by the researchers. The authors of the study did look for confounders that would increase the risk of death. Table 2 of the article provides a listing that includes asthma, cerebrovascular disease, coronary heart disease, chronic kidney disease, COPD to name a few.
Interestingly, the people who had a prescription for sleeping pills also had a higher prevalence of a significant chronic medical condition as compared to those who were not prescribed. Here are a couple of examples from that table all with a statistically significant difference p,0. Are people with serious illness likely to be prescribed sleeping pills? Is the increased death rate merely a reflection of the underlying illness? Or, do the sleeping pills confer some increased risk?
Given the pharmacologic differences between the available prescription drugs, is it likely that they all are associated with the same risk? If in fact the sleeping pills were causative, it is also interesting that the association did not vary with the number of doses prescribed. Or, put another way, there does not appear to be a dose related association. As we occasionally note, conflicts of interest are important in reporting of published medical studies.
Clearly those are not the correct options. The study by Kripke and colleagues is provocative to say the least. While there are limitations to the study and perhaps the enthusiasm of the authors, the conclusions are both interesting and deserving of further discussion.
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Am I wrong or does dr Kripke works in a clinic that helps with sleep disorders? In that case: less pills means more work, fame and money for him. We welcome comments, which users can leave at the end of any of our systematic story reviews or at the end of any of our blog posts. This site is primarily a forum for discussion about the quality or lack thereof in journalism or other media messages advertising, marketing, public relations, medical journals, etc.
Deaths from drug overdoses have recently multiplied in the U. Opioid abuse is being blamed as the main killer. Efforts of law enforcement and treatment programs have focused on opioids and opioid-manufacturers.
But this ignores a critical component of this toxic equation: Opioids are not the only substance to blame. Sleeping pills and alcohol often join to make the combined gang a killer.
Like opioids, sleeping pills come from manufacturers who have not warned doctors and patients of the great risks. Many sleeping pills are acquired illegally. And prescription sleeping pills, as well as alcohol abuse, have all increased in the past 10—15 years, just as opioids have. The 31 percent likely underestimated multiple drug participation because about 25 percent of overdose death certificates did not list all of the drugs involved. Likewise, that 31 percent did not include the most popular sleeping pill, zolpidem, which acts like a benzodiazepine although its chemical structure has a different name.
Zolpidem has frequently been reported in overdose deaths and increasingly causes emergency room visits. When mixed together, zolpidem, similar sleeping pills, and tranquilizers as well as alcohol increase the lethality of opioid overdoses. These drugs gang up to stop breathing. More than 20 percent of the emergencies involving a benzodiazepine also involved alcohol. Many overdose deaths involving sleeping pills and alcohol did not even include an opioid. Declaring an opioid emergency overlooks a large part of the problem.
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