"yes - dalmane is very effective at putting and keeping you asleep.  i was prescribed it for four years before the dangers were known. by blocking neuron transmissions, mine were not communicating next day. i had a career that required thought, concentration and problem solving. i no longer could do any of that.  my professional, domestic social and economic life fell apart insidiously over that time. i became agoraphobic and withdrawn, dependent on others who told me what to do.  recovery of my own mind took well over five years, many of them in a spin. i had been made very very ill indeed"