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Hypnotic
Hypnotic
(from
Greek
Hypnos
, sleep) or
soporific
drugs, commonly known as
sleeping pills
, are a class of
psychoactive drugs
whose primary function is to
induce sleep
and to be used in the treatment of
insomnia
(sleeplessness), or surgical
anesthesia
.
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