Faced with insomnia, medications must remain exceptional. It is recommended to rely instead on cognitive and behavioral therapies.
Should we completely ban sleeping pills? “Occasionally, these are good medications,” believes Joëlle Adrien, neurobiologist and emeritus research director at Inserm. “When we use them daily, and for too long, there is inevitably an addiction which makes them less effective. And if we stop, it's a horror: we don't sleep at all! »