The author of the textbook Foundations of Physiological Psychology expresses one idea that may be an explanation of the general populations’ attitude toward sleeping pills. He states “Patients who receive a sleeping medication develop a tolerance to the drug and suffer rebound symptoms if it is withdrawn” (Carlson 2002). In other words many people may worry that if they take a sleeping pill they will develop tolerance and dependence to it and in the end sleep even more poorly than they did to begin with. Though there is some truth to

Participants were randomly assigned to be administered 7.5mg of zopiclone, .25mg triazolam, 1.0mg flunitrzepam or a placebo in a 2:1:1:1 ratio respectively so minimal benzodiazepines could be administered while still allowing the necessary amount of patients per group for appropriate statistical analysis. Thus, 612 participants received zopiclone, 290 flunitrazepam, 307 triazolam and 298 placebo. This ratio was probably desired because of the hypothesized higher rebound effects expected with benzodiazpines. By administering fewer benzodiazepines the experimenters were most likely hoping to induce a lower amount of rebound in their participants overall, though their published article does not report this explicitly (Hajak et al.1998). After a three-day washout period with no drug intake, drugs were administered for twenty-eight days and the withdrawal period began immediately on the twenty-ninth day, lasting two weeks.

this phenomenon of rebound insomnia, there are several more recent studies that indicate that some available sleeping pills produce minimal rebound, and that even placebos produce some rebound insomnia which would

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