Insomnia is a subjective experience of decreased sleep quality and duration due to difficulty falling asleep or sleeping continuously, which cannot meet the needs of normal physiological and physical recovery and affects normal social function. Severe cases need to use drug therapy, commonly used drugs are as follows: 1, benzodiazepines: these drugs are the most commonly used sedative, hypnotic and anxiolytic drugs for clinical treatment of insomnia. According to its duration of action is divided into short-acting, medium-acting and long-acting preparations, commonly used representative drugs are midazolam, lorazepam and diazepam. 2, non-benzodiazepines: these drugs do not affect the normal sleep physiology of healthy people, is also the preferred clinical hypnotic drugs, commonly used on behalf of zolpidem, right zopiclone, zopiclone, etc. 3, melatonin receptor agonist: is a relatively new drug, can be used for circadian rhythm disorders, sleep difficulties mainly sleep, the representative drugs are ramelteon. 4, antidepressants with sedative effect: some insomnia is caused by depression or anxiety, such drugs can improve depression symptoms, while having a sedative effect, the main representative drugs are mirtazapine, trazodone. In summary, there are many drugs for insomnia, but each drug has its own indications and contraindications, so there is no which drug works best, only which is the most suitable, while taking the process to follow the principle of individualized and on-demand medication, and follow medical advice.
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