Sleep Unplugged with Dr. Chris Winter
Sleep Unplugged with Dr. Chris Winter
Chris Winter, MD
#215 - Seqoquel and Insomnia: Same Thing From The Same Old Cause
41 minutes Posted Aug 3, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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Ten million prescriptions a year, and most of them aren't for what the drug was built to treat. Seroquel started life as an antipsychotic — engineered to quiet psychosis, not close your eyes. Somewhere along the way it became one of the most common "off the record" sleep aids in America, riding on a side effect nobody set out to sell. The evidence behind that shift is thinner than most people assume — and Seroquel isn't the only drug doing this. In this episode we will: Trace quetiapine from ...