What are sleep aids? A wide range of psychoactive drugs known as sleep pills can be used to treat insomnia as well as other sleep disorders such as sleeplessness. Insomnia is the inability to sleep or the delay in falling asleep, when someone frequently wakes up in the night in the middle of sleep, or one wakes up too early and fails to go back to sleep. People who are suffering from insomnia often feel exhausted upon waking up. The sleep disorder can affect anywhere from 10-30% of people in the world. Europeans usually refer to sleeping pills as pharmaceutical grade medication which is produced in large pharmaceutical companies labs. They have been evaluated by independent regulatory agencies such as the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and verified to be relia