Sleeping pills & minor tranquillisers A-Z

There are currently 21 drugs licensed as sleeping pills or to treat anxiety in the UK. These are listed alphabetically to the left of this screen.

Anxiety may also be treated by drugs which are primarily known as antidepressants or antipsychotics. If the drug you are taking is not listed here, try our A-Z of antidepressants, A-Z of antipsychotics, or A-Z of psychiatric drugs.

Some of these drugs have more than one name. You might know a drug by its generic name or you might know it by a trade name (see our page about drug names for more information on this).

• alprazolam
• Alzain (pregabalin)
• Ativan (lorazepam)
• buspirone
• chloral/cloral
• chlordiazepoxide
• Circadin (melatonin)
• clomethiazole
• Dalmane (flurazepam)
• Dialar (diazepam)
• Diazemuls (diazepam)
• diazepam
• Diazepam Desitin (diazepam)
• Diazepam Rectubes (diazepam)
• diphenhydramine
• Dormagen (lormetazepam)
• Dormonoct (loprazolam)

• flurazepam
• Heminevrin (clomethiazole)
• Lecaent (pregabalin)
• Librium (chlordiazepoxide)
• loprazolam
• lorazepam
• lormetazepam
• Lyrica (pregabalin)
• melatonin
• meprobamate
• Mogadon (nitrazepam)
• nitrazepam
• Nytol (diphenhydramine)
• oxazepam
• Phenergan (promethiazine)
• promethazine

• Rewisca (pregabalin)
• Rimapam (diazepam)
• Sleep Aid (diphenhydramine)
• Sleepeaze (diphenhydramine)
• Sominex (promethazine)
• Stesolid (diazepam)
• Stilnoct (zolpidem)
• temazepam
• Tensium (diazepam)
• Welldorm (chloral)
• Xanax (alprazolam)
• Zimovane (zopiclone)
• zolpidem
• zopiclone