We often see patients who are addicted to sedative drugs such as sleeping pills in our clinics, and they suffer from their inability to stop taking them. There are also many first-time patients who repeatedly ask: Is there a dependency on this drug? Will they become addicted? They express their extreme fear of becoming addicted to certain sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medications. The problem of sleeping pill addiction is indeed a concern. Patients who take some sleeping pills and then feel that the medication is less effective as they take it for longer periods of time often increase the dose of the medication consciously or unconsciously in an attempt to improve sleep: from one, to two, and eventually increasing the dose of the medication to 10, 20, or more tablets. Once the patient reduces the medication, decreases the dose, or stops taking the medication, he/she feels that the insomnia is aggravated, often manifested as sleepless nights, very painful, and irritable, easily irritated, easily provoked; headache, general weakness, general aching, anorexia, sweating, limb tremor. Nausea and vomiting, panic, and even convulsions. In severe cases, grand mal seizures and hyperthermic delirium may occur. These withdrawal symptoms and withdrawal reactions are painful for the patient, what to do! In short, depending on the person, treat them separately and deal with them appropriately, sleeping pill addiction can be stopped, or can be avoided by prevention in advance. I hope these methods will be helpful to patients who are addicted to sleeping pills. The first method: Gradual reduction of dosage. For these drugs, you can gradually reduce the dose in small increments. Each time a small amount of reduction, such as each time to reduce 1/4 tablet, half a tablet. After reducing the dose, observe for half a month to one month. There are no major problems before continuing to reduce and tapering until the drug is stopped. It may take 3 months, 6 months or longer to taper down until you stop taking the medication and finish it off. Withdrawal symptoms and withdrawal drug reactions can be avoided. This is the first method of discontinuation. The second method: alternative drug reduction. Use some antidepressants that can improve sleep and are better to stop taking, such as trazodone, to gradually replace the original drugs. Then gradually reduce the withdrawal of these antidepressants, and finally achieve the purpose of sleeping drug withdrawal. This is the second method of drug discontinuation. The third is very important: the above two methods, the best with self-regulation, distraction. Such as climbing, swimming, playing ball, physical exercise, travel, etc., to increase the amount of exercise, can effectively combat the withdrawal reaction, to reduce the pain of the process of discontinuation. The fourth prevention-oriented: First, do not use easily addictive barbiturate sedative-hypnotic drugs, such as scombobarbital, pentobarbital. Secondly, try to use as little as possible those anti-anxiety sedative hypnotic drugs that may lead to dependence, such as clonazepam, lorazepam. In particular, high doses of these drugs and long-term use should be avoided. To try to use other drugs that are easy to stop and have a mild withdrawal reaction, such as alprazolam. This is also a good way to avoid developing sleeping pill dependence.