Hypnotics are a type of depressant drug that induces sleep and can be fatal if taken in large doses. They come in pill or capsule form and their effects include impaired coordination, internal bleeding, and potentially coma or death from overdose. While sometimes used in hospitals, hypnotics like barbiturates and benzodiazepines are sedative-hypnotic drugs that cause central nervous system depression and have resulted in deaths from misuse and overdoses according to data from poison control centers.

1. Hypnotics By:Hannah Rogers andShyanna Jimenez

3. Very strong drug that brings on sleep

4. Also called Ludes and Soporifics

6. Internal Bleeding

7. Coma

9. Internal Bleeding

12. Pictures Cont… One Type of the pill Brings On Sleep

13. Facts Sedative-hypnotics are a group of drugs that cause CNS depression. Benzodiazepines and barbiturates are the most commonly used According to the 2007 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System, 63,729 single exposures were documented for the sedative/hypnotics/antipsychotics drug category. Of these, 24 resulted in death.1 In 1998, a total of 70,982 sedative-hypnotic exposures were reported to US poison control centers, of which 2310 (3.2%) resulted in major toxicity and 89 (0.1%) resulted in death.

14. More Facts Tranquilizers may be a more familiar term used to describe sedative-hypnotic agents (1) “Downer drugs” Drugs that take the edge off Calm your mood when you are feeling anxious Induce sleep (1)

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