Sleeping Pills

Last Friday, five months after receiving approval from the FDA, pharmacists finally began doling out the newest sleep aid to the groggy hordes.

If you rely on sleeping pills to fall asleep, you could be putting your health at risk, a new study suggests. Research published in the journal BM...

Sleeping pills are generally safe, especially when used short-term. Complex sleep behaviors such as sleep eating, sleep driving and sleep violence are uncommon side effects. But there are known factors that increase the risk of this happening to you.

Women today face more responsibilities than ever before. For this reason, more and more women are turning to sleep medication -- or as the New York Times dubbed it in a recent article, "Mother's New Little Helper."

By encouraging clock watching and drug use during the middle of the night, Intermezzo may provoke people to wake in the night in order to take a pill.

Combining depressants like booze and sleeping pills is a kind of personal roulette. You don't know what you'll get at the end of the day.

I am constantly inundated with requests for medications to "sleep better". Yes, these medications will help you get to sleep. But sleep better? No way!

I'd advise turning to sleep medications as a last resort, after you're tried everything else, a final line of action rather than a first. They're not demon drugs, but neither are they harmless.

On Independence Day, somebody somehow slipped a pill into my wine glass at a dinner dance, and I left about three minutes before it really hit. Date rape drugs are a weapon.

Melatonin is a hormone your body produces to help it regulate your sleep-wake cycles, but taking additional melatonin in the form of a supplement isn't as good an idea as you might think.

The investigation into actor Heath Ledger's death -- still unresolved, though medication has been suspected -- and a recent CDC report on fatal overdo...