Early morning insomnia with rapidly eliminated benzodiazepines

Anthony Kales, Constantin R. Soldatos, Edward O. Bixler, Joyce D. Kales

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Abstract

Early morning insomnia, a significant increase in wakefulness during the final hours of drug nights, occurred after 1 or 2 weeks of nightly administration of benzodiazepine hypnotics with short elimination half-lives, when tolerance had begun to develop. Early morning insomnia may be a variant of rebound insomnia and therefore specific to benzodiazepines, or it may occur with any rapidly eliminated sedative-hypnotic agent.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)95-97
Number of pages3
JournalScience
Volume220
Issue number4592
DOIs
StatePublished - 1983

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  • General

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