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  2. Loprazolam - Wikipedia

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    The dose of loprazolam for insomnia is usually 1 mg but can be increased to 2 mg if necessary. In the elderly a lower dose is recommended due to more pronounced effects and a significant impairment of standing up to 11 hours after dosing of 1 mg of loprazolam. The half-life is much more prolonged in the elderly than in younger patients.

  3. Lorazepam - Wikipedia

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    Sedation is the side effect people taking lorazepam most frequently report. In a group of around 3,500 people treated for anxiety, the most common side effects complained of from lorazepam were sedation (15.9%), dizziness (6.9%), weakness (4.2%), and unsteadiness (3.4%). Side effects such as sedation and unsteadiness increased with age. [61]

  4. Effects of long-term benzodiazepine use - Wikipedia

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    A review of the literature found data on long-term follow-up regarding neurobehavioural outcomes is very limited. [109] However, a study was conducted that followed up 550 benzodiazepine-exposed children, which found that, overall, most children developed normally.

  5. Benzodiazepine - Wikipedia

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    Older adults should not use benzodiazepines to treat insomnia unless other treatments have failed. [48] When benzodiazepines are used, patients, their caretakers, and their physician should discuss the increased risk of harms, including evidence that shows twice the incidence of traffic collisions among driving patients, and falls and hip ...

  6. Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome (BZD withdrawal) is the cluster of signs and symptoms that may emerge when a person who has been taking benzodiazepines as prescribed develops a physical dependence on them and then reduces the dose or stops taking them without a safe taper schedule.

  7. Hypnotic - Wikipedia

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    Zolpidem tartrate, a common but potent sedative–hypnotic drug.Used for severe insomnia. Hypnotic (from Greek Hypnos, sleep [1]), or soporific drugs, commonly known as sleeping pills, are a class of (and umbrella term for) psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep [2] (or surgical anesthesia [note 1]) and to treat insomnia (sleeplessness).

  8. Lormetazepam - Wikipedia

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    The risks of tolerance, dependence, and withdrawal are very low when the drug is used for 2–4 weeks only, and lormetazepam is generally a safe and effective drug when used for no longer than 2–4 weeks. Some sleep disturbance in the form of rebound insomnia can, however, occur even after short-term usage of 7 days. [15]

  9. Benzodiazepine dependence - Wikipedia

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    Low- or normal-dose dependence was not suspected until the 1970s, and it was not until the early 1980s that it was confirmed. [69] [70] Low-dose dependence has now been clearly demonstrated in both animal studies and human studies, [71] [72] and is a recognized clinical disadvantage of benzodiazepines. Severe withdrawal syndromes can occur from ...