Hypnotic drugs

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hypnotic drugs or sleeping pills are a class of psychoactives whose primary function is to induce sleep. They are regularly used by patients suffering from insomnia and other sleep disorders as well as by medical staffs for surgical anesthesia. Due to a large number of factors known to disturb the human sleep pattern, a physician may recommend alternative sleeping patterns, sleep hygiene, and exercise before prescribing hypnotic drugs. This is due to their habit-forming characteristic and a number of side effects such as daytime fatigue, and cognitive impairments. As a result, sleeping medication should be used for the shortest period of time possible...