Showing posts with label dementia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dementia. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

A Link Between Sleeping Pills and Dementia?


The BBC has a report on Canadian researchers who have discovered an apparent link between sustained use of a broad family of sleep and anxiety medications and the development of dementia.

The drugs are from the family of benzodiazepines.  Wiki has this list of the medications.

Many of us have to deal with sleep disorders at some point and many physicians like to prescribe solutions.