Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A guide published in JAMA Internal Medicine provides strategies to promote sleep and reduce sedative-hypnotic ...

THE questions of when to use, which to use and what may be accomplished from sedative-hypnotic drugs are, at times, very perplexing. The recent introduction into therapy of several new groups of these ...

Sedative-, hypnotic-, or anxiolytic- (SHA-) related disorders include SHA intoxication, SHA withdrawal, and SHA-use disorder. These disorders result from abuse of a class of medications known as ...

CHLORAL hydrate, introduced into medicine by Liebreich 1 in 1869, has long been and still is one of the most effective and least expensive of the sedative-hypnotic drugs. Furthermore, when used wisely ...

Some patients can have vivid and detailed sexual hallucinations during anesthesia with sedative-hypnotic drugs like propofol, midazolam, diazepam and nitrous oxide. Some make suggestive or sexual ...

Among Medicaid patients taking opioids for chronic pain, the risk of fatal overdose rises steadily with daily opioid dose, reports a study. Among Medicaid patients taking opioids for chronic pain, the ...

Have You Discussed “Driving Retirement” With Your Older Patients? A study in the American Journal of Public Health reports that use of some sedative-hypnotic medications may nearly double the risk of ...

Metoclopramide is a central dopamine D2-receptor antagonist used as an antiemetic and gastroprokinetic agent in dogs and cats 1,2,3,4. It has been used experimentally in pigeons as an antiemetic agent ...