Do Sleeping Pills Work?

How can sedatives be so highly touted when so many people who use them still wake up in the middle of the night or report minimal improvement in sleep quality, even after having "slept all through the night?"

The answer is that something else degrades your sleep, which the drug does not address. Either the drug cannot prevent you from waking in the middle of the night, because it doesn't prevent the cause of such awakenings, or the drug does not improve sleep quality, because it does not remove the sleep quality problem you suffer from. All of which raises the interesting question of whether or not sleeping pills or antidepressants just give you more sleep that's not worth getting, which leads us back to an old mantra "all sleep is not the same." For more here >>