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what is the most commonly prescribed medication used for sleep disorders?
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Medication is the most prescribed, but it's cognitive behavioural therapy that is actually the most effective treatment, especially with long-term poor sleepers.

If it's you who has sleep problems, I would really encourage you to consult your doctor about CBT.
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Drug therapy is an adjunctive measure within the model of comprehensive treatment of insomnia. For the establishment of drug therapy, you have to take into account both the duration of the problem and the type of insomnia .. The most common treatment is prescribed by a painting of insomnia without intoaccount the cause and type of insomnia , are certainly Benzodiacepinas.De BZD-treated patients, between 23% and 25% was due to the patient profile insomnio.y was mostly women over 65 who had, by 46% of cases, more than a year with the same treatment, with no studies showing médico.Hay tracking abuse of prescription of benzodiazepines, without the optional note potential risks with these drugs especially in old age.
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