Hype about new drug for insomnia: How good is Daridorexant really?

“Anyone can compete with a placebo.” With this counter, Bernd Mühlbauer lets the air out. The director of the Institute for Clinical Pharmacology at Bremen Hospital has seen many exaggerations from the pharmaceutical industry in his professional life. New miracle drugs were repeatedly touted, but often little remained of them because the effectiveness turned out to be far less than initially assumed. Or previously unknown side effects occurred.