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triazolam (HALCION)

• alprazolam (XANAX); chlordiazepoxide (LIBRIUM); clorazepate (TRANXENE); diazepam (VALIUM); estazolam (PROSOM); flurazepam (DALMANE); halazepam (PAXIPAM); lorazepam (ATIVAN); prazepam (CENTRAX); quazepam (DORAL); temazepam (RESTORIL); triazolam (HALCION)
  We list these drugs as Do Not Use drugs because they are sedating, addictive, cause hip fractures and a safer related drug is available.

• Sleeping Pills and Tranquilizers [hide all summaries]
  Older adults have a much more difficult time eliminating benzodiazepines and similar drugs from their bloodstreams and these drugs can thus accumulate in their bodies. Also, older adults are more sensitive to the effects of many of these drugs than are younger adults. For older adults the risk of serious adverse drug effects is significantly increased. Serious adverse effects may include: unsteady gait, dizziness, falling (causing an increased risk of hip fractures), increased risk of an auto accident, drug-induced or drug-worsened impairment of thinking, memory loss, and addiction.

• The Dangers of Combining Sleeping Pills With Other Medication [hide all summaries]
  (September 2010)
  The article list 34 other medications that can harmfully interact with sleeping pills, increasing their sedative properties and causing excessive sedation. Excessive sedation at night could increase the risk of falls, should the person get up in the night for some reason. Moreover, excessive sedation causing respiratory depression could be dangerous for people with certain disorders, such as lung disease.
• FDA Requests New Safety Warnings for AMBIEN (Zolpidem), Other Sleeping Pills [hide all summaries]
  (May 2007)
  Patients taking sleep medications could be at risk of severe allergic reactions and complex sleep-related behaviors, which may include sleep driving, driving while not fully awake after ingestion of a sleeping pill, with no memory of the event, according to the FDA. DO NOT suddenly stop taking sleeping pills without consulting your physician because of the possibility of withdrawal reactions.
• Grapefruit Juice and Prescription Drugs: Some Dangerous Interactions [hide all summaries]
  (February 2004)
  The January 5th issue of the Medical Letter, a widely respected source of independent information about pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements, has a review of the increasingly researched problem of the interaction between grapefruit juice and many prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Like most interactions between chemicals in the body, this one involves the impairment, by grapefruit juice, of the body’s ability to metabolize many drugs, leading to higher than expected — and sometimes dangerous — levels of these drugs.This article lists the drugs.
• Grapefruit Juice and Drug Interactions [hide all summaries]
  (June 2002)
  Grapefruit juice can interact with a number of therapeutically important drugs that could lead to the possibility of toxicity. These drugs are listed in the article.

• Response to the Institute of Medicine's Report on Halcion. (HRG Publication #1431) [hide all summaries]
  The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, done in a hurried manner, is a waste of taxpayers dollars in that many of the questions it was asked/paid to answer by the Food and Drug Administation (FDA), had already been answered by the FDA before the committee's process had barely begun.

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