How do you get addicted to sleeping pills?

Question

I don't mean any disrespect but I take over the counter sleeping pills because the prescription medication I take it makes it impossible to fall asleep. But I always thought of addiction as thinking about when you can get more of "whatever". So can you really be addicted to sleeping pills?

Answer 1

You can become addicted to just about anything. What happens is, your body becomes accustomed to have a medication to "tell" it to sleep. At the same time your body is adjusting to the dose of medication that you take and is requiring more of the medication. This is called "tolerance". So then you wind up taking more and more of the medication. This is how an addiction starts.
1. Need to sleep
2. Take a low dose.
3. Tolerance, so a higher dose is required
4. A higher dose is taken.
5. Dependence on the drug and an addiction has occurred.

If you are addicted to a drug, you need to get professional help now. Good Luck!

Answer 2

well, i think there are three stages of addiction, let's see, there would be tolerance, dependency and abuse? something like that. Usually properly used prescription drugs fit the first two criteria, but not necessarily the third. So you might not be breaking the law going out and getting multiple prescriptions and all that, but you will still have a hassle getting off the pills.

You should look up about sleeping pills-turns out they help for awhile, and after that, people only BELIEVE that they are helping, but sleep studies show otherwise. I mean, people will swear up and down that the pills help, and they just don't. I think most sleep researchers are against their long term use. That was my impression, anyhow.

Answer 3

Addiction is anytime your body become so accustomed to a certain drug or chemical or whatever, that it goes through withdrawl when said "whatever" is taken away. If missing a dose or two makes you shaky, irritable and unable to focus, you have an addiction. I mean look at caffine....... noone ever killed for a coffee fix but plenty are addicted. (I am)

Also you should only mix uppers and downers with the suppervision of a doctor, check with yours about how what you are taking may interact.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Addiction occurs when your body needs the drug to sleep or function. One believes that you can't go without it.

Answer 6

As in not being able to give them up, yes!