Sleep Medicine Edition | Medications for Insomnia: What Works?
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The Role of Benzodiazepines in Sleep
I don't think that the clonazepam diazepam medications are good options for just sleep. Again if you have a patient who has a severe anxiety disorder or a panic disorder where you're trying to treat that, so within a sarsi and augment with a benzodiazepine like this? Maybe it can have a dual indication there. But just by themselves, just for sleep now. Okay. And then finally, let's talk about the non-benzodiazepines hypnotics, zopodem, zolepion, and so forth. These are pure hypnotics. So in therapeutic doses, all they do is help with sleep. The three common
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