Prescription Drugs Used in Insomnia

Sleep Medicine Clinics
Sylvie DujardinDirk Pevernagie

Abstract

The scope of this article is to review the effects on sleep of prescription drugs that are commonly prescribed for chronic insomnia in adults. The following groups are discussed: benzodiazepines and its receptor agonists, the dual orexin receptor antagonist suvorexant, melatonin and its receptor agonists, sedating antidepressants, and antipsychotics. Together with the neurobiologic and pharmacologic properties of these drugs, clinical effects are described, including subjective and objective effects on sleep duration, continuity, and architecture. Medical prescription information is given when available. Recently published American and European guidelines for the treatment of insomnia serve as reference frame.

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