Every medication has side effects. So you can best not use sleep-inducing drugs and sedatives without consulting the doctor. Always read the instruction leaflet carefully. If you use too much and too often, you may become addicted.
In the short-term
- The use of sleep-inducing drugs and
sedatives may make you drowsy, which increases the risk of accidents.
- You can feel bad and experience anxiety
through use.
- Using too many sleep-inducing drugs and
sedatives may be highly dangerous.
- Combining sleep-inducing drugs and sedatives
with alcohol is always dangerous.
- You may get headaches, be tired, feel drowsy
or empty; your desire for sex may reduce.
- You forget more and more things and have
greater problems dealing with stress.
In the long term
Buying medication on the internet or on the street is dangerous. You never know for sure what it contains. Always buy medicines in the pharmacy.
Addiction
After 6 to 8 weeks you may already become addicted to
benzodiazepines. Just stopping then becomes difficult.
- Your body is becoming used to the
benzodiazepines. You have to take increasingly more to gain the same
effect.
- You also quickly become mentally used to
sleep-inducing drugs and sedatives. If you take a pill for a long time,
you think you think you’re unable to live without it. This keeps you using
again and again.
Breaking the habit
Stopping sleep-inducing drugs and sedatives is not
easy. You often suffer from all kinds of complaints / withdrawal symptoms.
Stopping taking medication is best done under supervision of a doctor.