It is okay to take sleeping pills occasionally. If you have frequent insomnia, it will affect your daytime work and study, accompanied by memory loss, inability to concentrate, reduced work and study efficiency, and also dizziness, fatigue, panic attacks, etc. 1. For short-term use of sleeping pills, non-benzodiazepine sedative-hypnotics are preferred, such as zolpidem, dextrozopiclone, zopiclone, which have relatively few side effects, no obvious addictive properties, and do not cause dependence. The second choice is the old benzodiazepine sedative-hypnotics, represented by alprazolam and eszopiclone, whose disadvantages are mainly addiction and dependence, and the tendency to produce hangover effects after taking them.