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Doxylamine, sold under the brand name Unisom among others, is an antihistamine medication which is used in the treatment of insomnia and allergies. It is also used to treat morning sickness in pregnant women in combination with pyridoxine ( vitamin B 6 ). Doxylamine is available over-the-counter, and is used in nighttime cold medicines, such as ...
Sleeping pills Suicide Richard Chase: 1950 1980 30 Serial killer Unspecified Unknown Vic Chesnutt: 1964 2009 45 Musician Unspecified muscle relaxant: Suicide Tai Chi-tao: 1891 1949 58 Journalist Sleeping pills Suicide (suspected) Diana Churchill: 1909 1963 54 Naval officer Barbiturates Suicide Sally Clark: 1964 2007 42 Solicitor
Zopiclone, sold under the brand name Imovane among others, is a nonbenzodiazepine used to treat difficulty sleeping. Zopiclone is molecularly distinct from benzodiazepine drugs and is classed as a cyclopyrrolone. However, zopiclone increases the normal transmission of the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the central nervous ...
Overdose deaths reached record levels in the United States in recent years, and a new report shows that counterfeit pills are involved in a growing share of those deaths.
It is the most frequently used drug in physician-assisted suicide within the United States. Secobarbital is considered to be an obsolete sedative-hypnotic (sleeping pill), and as a result, it has largely been replaced by the benzodiazepine family. Seconal was widely abused, known on the street as "red devils" or "reds".
The Peaceful Pill Handbook. The Peaceful Pill Handbook is a book setting out information on assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. Written by the Australian doctor Philip Nitschke and lawyer Fiona Stewart, it was originally published in the U.S. in 2006. A German edition of the print book— Die Friedliche Pille —was published in 2011.
Somnifacient (from Latin somnus, sleep [1] ), also known as sedatives or sleeping pills, is a class of medications that induces sleep. It is mainly used for treatment of insomnia. Examples of somnifacients include benzodiazepines, barbiturates and antihistamines . Around 2-6% of adults with insomnia use somnifacients to aid sleep. [2]
Marilyn Monroe died of a barbiturate overdose at 36. All about how old she was when she died, how she died, and theories around a coverup around her death.