Are sleeping tablets harmful?

Are sleeping tablets harmful?

There are all kinds of sleeping tablets. They were regarded as particularly harmful up to around the 1960's, when they were mainly the Barbiturates. And the problem with the Barbiturates is, if you took too many of those, they stopped your breathing, and one would die because of that. When the Benzodiazepines were introduced, they were regarded as very safe, mainly because one couldn't overdose on them. Our country has varied in how they view the Benzodiazepine or the Z compounds. There is a newer class of Benzodiazepine; those compounds are called zolpidem, zaleplon, zopiclone, hence the z compounds. They produce dependency, as do nearly all the sleeping tablets. Some countries will accept dependency as not being a terribly big issue. Other countries react to that and tend to regard the whole group of sleeping tablets as unsafe because of that.