HALCION (TRIAZOLAM) FOR SLEEP!
Uniquely, Halcion is a benzo designed for sleep!
Halcion was just being introduced when my insominia was really beginning to bite!
I used Halcion at the .5 mg strength level only in bed after a warm shower and I thought halcion worked great as a sleep aid.
Then poor halcion somehow ran a foul of the FDA and then the FDA proclaimed from on hign in high Washington D.C., (where else)
that halcion doses must now be cut to max of .25mg and carefully controlled, for some reason.
IDK.
It's a shame the FDA was not quite as watchful over opiates like Oxy, but be that as it may, Halcion got gutted.
Was it a big pharma and money a issue ? Maybe.
Anyway, halcion never recovered in popularity or ease of Rx and use.
Halcion was and is a safe drug ... Used as directed
It's a shame that anbien was ever invented or released on the rather naieve American sleep deprived public b/c halcion was and is a much safer drug for sleep than ambien ever would or could be.
Go figure?
But so it goes!
Halcion is described as : Triazolam (original brand name Halcion) - a central nervous system (CNS) depressant/ benzodiazepine .
Halcion posses pharmacological properties similar to those of other benzodiazepines, but it is generally only used as a sedative to treat severe insomnia.
Author this page read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triazolam