Are there any sleeping pills that I can take that arent physically addictive?
It used to be that doctors would prescribe barbiturates as sleeping pills; those are the ones people used to overdose on in order to commit suicide. And barbiturates are definitely addictive. Later they began to use certain benzodiazepines (e.g. Valium, Xanax), which are extremely difficult to overdose with, but which are also definitely addictive. Benzo withdrawal is really rather nasty, in fact, but it usually takes 6 months or so of steady use for physical addiction to occur. Your “anti-anxiety” drug is almost certainly a benzodiazepine. There’s a drug called Ambien which is not from either of those groups which is apparently a quite potent sleeping pill. But it affects some people strangely; there have been a lot of reports of sleep-walking among people using it — and even cases of sleep-driving. And apparently it, too, is addictive. OTC sleeping pills are antihistamines, and so far as I know those are not really addictive. Bu
