Hypnotic Medications and Suicide: Risk, Mechanisms, Mitigation, and the FDA.

CONCLUSIONS: The review findings indicate that hypnotic medications are associated with suicidal ideation. Future studies should be designed to assess whether increases in suicidality result from CNS impairments from a given hypnotic medication or whether such medication decreases suicidality because of improvements in insomnia.
PMID: 27609243 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry - September 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: McCall WV, Benca RM, Rosenquist PB, Riley MA, McCloud L, Newman JC, Case D, Rumble M, Krystal AD Tags: Am J Psychiatry Source Type: research