Preventing Falls and Staying Safe with Dr. Wayne Gradman

What should people taking these medications do to stay safe? They can ask their doctor to lower the number of them that they take. One of the big actors in this field is a classification of medicine called benzodiazepines. That's not so important as what's in that group. They're the sleeping pills which older people take quite frequently, and I take them, and frankly, I'd like to get off them. They're, they're addicting., and you get up in the middle of the night, and you may be a little wobbly, a little dizzy. You may not be aware of your surroundings, especially if you don't have a lit path to your bathroom, or if you get up too quickly, you're a little dizzy, and then you fall, and that's not a good scenario. So those medicines include not only sleeping pills, drugs that are directed to treating anxiety,