whether insomnia medications increase mortality

April 2012

News reports are keeping patients up at night worrying about whether insomnia medications increase mortality.

They're hearing sleep meds kill half a million people per year.

This new research suggests a 4 to 5 times higher mortality in people prescribed meds for sleep...including benzodiazepines (temazepam, etc), non-benzos (zopiclone, etc), antihistamines, and barbiturates.

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