Another poster offered a long list of local pharmacies that sell these over-the-counter pills, which cost less than a dollar apiece.

When you take over-the-counter sleeping pills for a short time, side effects may include:

Avoid using over-the-counter sleeping pills for insomnia since they may have undesired side effects and tend to lose their effectiveness over time.

Before traveling, she takes a regimen of seven over-the-counter pills that are meant to improve resistance to colds.

The use of over-the-counter sleeping pills is not usually recommended for the treatment of insomnia.

There were a lot of over-the-counter pills, like cold medicine, the sort of stuff everybody has in their medicine cabinets, even on a boat.

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Mr. Yang walked from the hospital to a nearby pharmacy and bought over-the-counter anti-inflammation pills.

A common abortion method is to take over-the-counter pills that cause powerful uterine contractions, leading to the expulsion of the fetus.

Antihistamines (the main ingredient in over-the-counter sleeping pills) can lead to similar difficulties.