Daily Mail | Prescription sleeping pills 'can raise chance of Alzheimer's by 50%' Daily Mail Prescription sleeping pills taken by more than a million Britons may cause dementia, research shows. Those taking a group of tablets known as benzodiazepines are 50 per cent more at risk of Alzheimer's disease. And patients who had been taking them for ... Commonly prescribed drugs could raise risk for Alzheimer's Anxiety and sleeping pills 'linked to dementia' Sleeping pills taken by millions linked to Alzheimer's |