The FDA rarely issues absolute contraindications, but that’s where their language is tilting in a new warning on Z-Hypnotics. We look at the data behind their decision and offer six tips for safer prescribing of sleep medications.

Recent trials cast doubt on prazosin’s role in PTSD, but there are reasons to doubt their results.

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Insomnia is one of the most common comorbidities you’ll see in your depressed and anxious patients. But it is often misunderstood. While the common view is that insomnia is caused by a primary psychiatric or medical condition, it is more accurate to simply say that patients have insomnia and depression at the same time. Insomnia is almost never an isolated problem.

This handy table lists the medications most often used to treat insomnia.

Clearly, sleeping pills work; the more relevant issue is whether there are any significant differences among them, and whether we should pony up 3 dollars per pill for the Maserati medications or just 3 cents per pill for perfectly adequate Civics.

On February 8, 2007 the model and actress Anna Nicole Smith was found dead in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Florida.

You wrote an excellent book on non-pharmacological approaches to insomnia, and I’d like to go over some of the techniques you suggested. What are some practical techniques that psychiatrists can use in the context of short visits with patients?