Sir: Taking sleeping pills are very common in our generation. Sleeping pills are classified as sedative hypotonic and are prescribed to insomnia and other sleep disorder patients to induced sleep. Sleeping pills are prescribed as a short term solution for sleep. Many people are miss informed by the proper usage of sleeping pills and believed that they cannot be addicted which is completely wrong. People who start taking sleeping pills make themselves addicted to these pills that they can’t fall asleep without taking it. This not only affects the health but also the brain activities .This reduces anxiety, people have dreamless sleep, feels week, lose weight, start having headaches and impaired memory. People are making their bodied addicted to these pills. They are ending up their resistance power in body by taking these pills or other pills without doctor’s prescription. This can be reduce by natural remedy that if you are having headache, fall asleep or make yourself busy in any healthy activity. RABANA UROOJ Karachi Published in Daily Times, December 8th 2018.