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 {|style="width:100%; border:1px solid black" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="1" eszopiclone (Lunesta®), zaleplon (Sonata®), zolpidem (Ambien®)
 * style="background-color:#1f497b;color: #202122; ; text-align:center" colspan="5"|Central Nervous System Depressants
 * colspan="5"|Medications that slow brain activity, which makes them useful for treating anxiety and sleep problems. For more information, see the Misuse of Prescription Drugs Research Report.
 * style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold"|Street Names
 * style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold"|Commercial Names (Common)
 * style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold"|Common Forms
 * style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold"|Common Ways Taken
 * style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold"|DEA Schedule
 * Barbs, Dolls, Phennies, Red/BlueBirds, Tooties, Yellow Jackets, Yellows
 * Barbiturates: pentobarbital (Nembutal®)
 * Pill, capsule, liquid
 * Swallowed, injected
 * style="text-align:center"|II, III, IV
 * Benzos, Downers, Poles, Tranks, Totem Z-Bars, Vs, Yellow/Blue Zs, Zannies
 * Benzodiazepines: alprazolam (Xanax®), chlorodiazepoxide (Librium®), diazepam (Valium®), lorazepam (Ativan®), triazolam (Halicon®)
 * Pill, capsule, liquid
 * Swallowed, snorted
 * style="text-align:center"|IV
 * Forget-me pill, Looney Bar, Mexican Valium, R2, Roche, Tic-Tacs, Sleepeasy, Symphony, Zombie flip
 * Sleep Medications:
 * Swallowed, snorted
 * style="text-align:center"|IV
 * Forget-me pill, Looney Bar, Mexican Valium, R2, Roche, Tic-Tacs, Sleepeasy, Symphony, Zombie flip
 * Sleep Medications:
 * Sleep Medications:
 * Pill, capsule, liquid
 * Swallowed, snorted
 * style="text-align:center"|IV
 * style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background-color:#dbe5ef;color: #202122; ;" colspan="5"|Possible Health Effects
 * style="font-weight:bold"|Short-term
 * colspan="4"|Drowsiness, slurred speech, poor concentration, confusion, dizziness, problems with movement and memory, lowered blood pressure, slowed breathing.
 * style="font-weight:bold"|Long-term
 * colspan="4"|Unknown.
 * style="font-weight:bold"|Other Health-related Issues
 * colspan="4"|Sleep medications are sometimes used as date rape drugs.
 * colspan="4"|Unknown.
 * style="font-weight:bold"|Other Health-related Issues
 * colspan="4"|Sleep medications are sometimes used as date rape drugs.
 * colspan="4"|Sleep medications are sometimes used as date rape drugs.

Risk of HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases from shared needles.
 * style="font-weight:bold"|In Combination with Alcohol
 * colspan="4"|Further slows heart rate and breathing, which can lead to death.
 * style="font-weight:bold"|Withdrawal Symptoms
 * colspan="4"|Must be discussed with a health care provider; barbiturate withdrawal can cause a serious abstinence syndrome that may even include seizures.
 * style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold; background-color:#dbe5ef;color: #202122; " colspan="5"|Treatment Options
 * style="font-weight:bold"|Medications
 * colspan="4"|There are no FDA-approved medications to treat addiction to prescription sedatives; lowering the dose over time must be done with the help of a health care provider.
 * style="font-weight:bold"|Behavioral Therapies
 * colspan="4"|More research is needed to find out if behavioral therapies can be used to treat addiction to prescription sedatives.
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 * colspan="4"|There are no FDA-approved medications to treat addiction to prescription sedatives; lowering the dose over time must be done with the help of a health care provider.
 * style="font-weight:bold"|Behavioral Therapies
 * colspan="4"|More research is needed to find out if behavioral therapies can be used to treat addiction to prescription sedatives.
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