They don’t help you get better sleep, and actually interfere with acquisition of, and maintenance of, deep sleep pretty much every drug does.

And, the only chemical treatments are sedatives and pills with sleepy side effects like Benadryl (an anti-histamine).Īnd these drugs are only hypnotic agents that can, at best, make it feel easier to GET TO sleep. But that process and the overall physiology of sleep is poorly understood. Sleep is primarily a chemical process that occurs in the brain and throughout the body.