Patients with insomnia need to be evaluated by a medical professional before deciding whether or not to be treated with sleeping pills. The specific duration of use, type of medication, and dose of medication vary from patient to patient, and there are no uniform criteria for judging. Sleeping pills are psychotropic Class II drugs, which can only be prescribed by a physician after a neurological or psychiatric consultation, and are usually limited in dosage. If a patient with insomnia is extremely mentally exhausted or has insomnia due to certain diseases, the doctor will prescribe sleeping pills and individualize the treatment, trying to apply a smaller dose of sleeping pills to achieve a better treatment effect. If insomnia and early awakening occur, resulting in lack of energy during the day, frequent sleepiness, lack of concentration, accompanied by general weakness and other symptoms, which seriously affect normal work and study, the use of sleeping pills can be considered when non-pharmacological treatment is ineffective. If the patient has some chronic diseases in the past, such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, etc., long-term insomnia has the possibility of inducing coronary heart disease attacks, which endangers the patient’s health and may even be life-threatening, at this time, sleeping pills should be taken promptly. At the same time, the doctor will determine whether there is a contraindication to taking sleeping pills, such as myasthenia gravis, the presence of patients with respiratory diseases, can not be given sleeping pills, these drugs can aggravate the disease, or even life-threatening. Therefore, sleeping pills should be taken under the strict supervision of a doctor to avoid increasing the dose of sleeping pills on their own, which can have serious adverse consequences, and should also be avoided for a long time to avoid dependence on them and the formation of a vicious circle. The condition of insomnia should be actively self-regulated as well as psychological treatment, drugs can only play a therapeutic role to a certain extent, only to remove the causative factors to relieve the symptoms of insomnia from the root.