Is a publishing professional with more than twenty years of

2. take Sleeping pills Short-term or Not at all
Sleeping pills and tranquilizers may help you fall asleep and 
may in the short term help you get through stress-induced insom-
nia. But these drugs have some serious drawbacks.
•  They don’t work for everyone, and even have the opposite effect 
on some, causing prolonged wakefulness.
•  They, too, block descent into deep sleep.

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•  You may build up a tolerance, requiring larger doses to achieve 
the same effect.
•  You can also become addicted to them.
•  Worst case, you may wind up needing sleeping pills to sleep 
and stimulants to wake up, taking higher and higher doses of 
each in an extremely dangerous cycle.