Sleep Medicine

A Sleep Medicine is a drug that depresses the central nervous system (CNS), ensuing in calmness, reduction of anxiety, relaxation, sleepiness, and slowed breathing, as well as slurred speech, poor judgment, staggering gait, and slow, uncertain reflexes. Sleep Medicine be referred to as tranquilizers, anxiolytics, soporifics, depressants, sleeping pills, downers, or sedative-hypnotics. Sleep Medicine can be ill-treated to produce an overly-calming effect (alcohol being the classic and most common sedating drug). At large amount doses or when they are abused, many of these drugs can result unconsciousness and even death.

All Sleep Medicine can produce psychological and physiological dependence when taken repeatedly over a period of time, even at therapeutic doses. When dependent users decrease or end use suddenly, they will show withdrawal symptoms ranging from restlessness, anxiety and insomnia to convulsions and death. When users become psychologically dependent, they experience as if they need the drug to function although there is no biological dependence. In both kinds of dependence, finding and using the drug becomes the focus in life. Both psychological and physical dependence can be treated.