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She started taking sleeping pills to treat her chronic insomnia, which eventually caused her to build up a dependency to these sedatives. It was sleeping pills that caused her death back in 1962.

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At the time, both "uppers" and "downers" were considered fairly harmless pills to take. You took the former to lose weight, you took the latter to get to sleep -- and it was VERY easy to get far more than you could safely consume. Physicians were aware that dependency was possible, but usually looked the other way as patients became addicts. Sadly, Monroe became like many other people at the time: taking too many downers to get to sleep, then taking too many uppers to regain alertness.

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In a way yes, it appears that she became addicted to prescription drugs used to treat her insomnia.

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That would be a private matter between her and her doctor.

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