Habits are indeed different from addictions. But surely you acknowledge that these are addictive drugs we're talking about? They've been well studied and people

Habits are indeed different from addictions. But surely you acknowledge that these are addictive drugs we're talking about? They've been well studied and people develop both physical and mental dependencies on them far beyond mere habits. > When sleep issues are caused by mental conditions you can generally address them. But when it's the side effect of something physical the attempts to address such things without drugs do not fare very well. Actually, there are plenty of ways to improve sleep quality without drugs. Typically, Zolpidem is prescribed only after those methods have been tried. But again, the prevailing medical guideline is to only use drugs like that for a short term period in the neighborhood of 2 weeks. It's not recommended that you use them for years, even at a low dosage or on an irregular schedule.