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can you be addicted to melatonin? my mom lets my 14 year old sister take it to sleep like everyday and i dunno.. she seems dependent on it and i don't think my sister realizes it. she takes the children's gummies

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Addicted, no. Dependent, yes definitely. When someone takes melatonin, it tells the body to not make its own melatonin. The body will make less and less natural melatonin on its own. So it will require to take more and more from an external source. You need to let your body make it on its own otherwise it gets harder and harder to get good sleep. Kids that take melatonin are being set up for the possibility of sleep problems later in life. It’s not worth it in the long run.

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From experience, not really. I can't speak for others though. It is a sedative. So I would compare it to weed or Xanax in a Much lesser form, vs uppers. (Just saying cause if she did become an addict later in life my  guess would be downers) Also children's would be even lower mg than adults thus less of the effects. I as a child took adult melatonin and didn't become addicted. I guess some people can. Like alcoholics drinking mouthwash; people can, that doesn't mean they will or that they won't.  
I would say for me the most addicting part of melatonin is deep good sleep. Which I wasn't getting is the reason I took it. And overall you feel much better when you wake up. I actually found after taking it regularly for a little bit, I didn't have to take it. My body became accustomed to going to sleep early and falling asleep faster. Sleeping deeper. Given it lasts until you mess your schedule up again. 
Lmao, the reason I'm up at 1:30am...

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No it’s a natural drug it’s not known for being additive it’s not a benzo . Insomnia is a real thing I deal with it on the daily I do not take anything for it . But a lot of people have prescription pills for it that they take daily . If she struggles to sleep and something natural that helps her is a good thing you cannot overdose on something like that .

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