{"id":150198,"date":"2025-06-01T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150198\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T19:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T19:18:10","slug":"a-popular-alternative-to-a-traditional-sleeping-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150198\/","title":{"rendered":"A popular alternative to a traditional sleeping pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration of a pill bottle with stars and a crescent moon on the label, with floating pills alongside it against a dark blue background.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/p3-sleepicon-pills-hl0625-gi2169615677.jpg\" style=\"height:334px; width:340px\" class=\"ucr-content-image\" data-cr-imageid=\"a2d92d17-1782-47ef-9310-5dd0f16e54c2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For many people, taking the prescription sleeping pill zolpidem (Ambien) isn&#8217;t a rare occurrence; it&#8217;s a nightly routine, and the only way they feel they can fall asleep. But the reliance on zolpidem has serious risks. Now, a trend in prescribing has shifted toward an &#8220;off-label&#8221; (unapproved) use of another pill known for its ability to make people drowsy: a low dose of the antidepressant drug trazodone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For many people, taking the prescription sleeping pill zolpidem (Ambien) isn&#8217;t a rare occurrence; it&#8217;s a nightly routine,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[64210,64213,64208,64209,64212,64214,105,64203,725,64207,64206,64205,64211,64204,4326,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-150198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-harvard-health","9":"tag-harvard-health-letter","10":"tag-harvard-health-publications","11":"tag-harvard-health-publishing","12":"tag-harvard-heart-letter","13":"tag-harvard-women","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-health-information","16":"tag-health-news","17":"tag-health-newsletter","18":"tag-health-newsletters","19":"tag-health-report","20":"tag-health-harvard-edu","21":"tag-medical-information","22":"tag-medication","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114609724024794486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}