Sleeping Pills​

While sleeping pills boast a high rate of normal users, others who abuse the drug may find the side effects to cause both physical and mental problems. Abusers may find themselves itching more frequently and other times the body can swell up in spots where they experienced the itching sensation. Among the aforementioned physical effects, a dry mouth is another cause of abuse a user can experience. 

The mental effects sleeping pills can cause are many in number and severe in most cases. Apart from some daytime pill cravings and drowsiness, more severe cases will find themselves having unusual dreams or developing a reliance on the drugs to function or fall asleep. In cases where the user becomes dependent on the drug, they will begin to need larger and larger doses due to an inability to experience the same effect from a similar previous dosage. Less severe cases can have the user experience some light headedness or difficulty maintaining their coordination due to dizzy spells. In the worst of cases an abuser will begin to develop a depressed breathing rate or even some memory loss.

In the rare cases of an overdose the effects will either be mild inconveniences or in the worst case, death. Overdosing on sleeping pills will more often than not cause a range of inconvenient effects to develop. For instance, abusers can experience forms of abdominal pain, appetite loss or constipation. Others may experience in increase in excessive lethargy or clumsy and drunk like behavior. Due to advancements in medical technology, sleeping pills are now significantly less likely to cause death due to an overdose, so in almost all cases of death, there are other drugs like depressants or alcohol that are mixed in with the sleeping pills to cause death.