[tarcyanm]

The cynical answer is that sleep medications (and I mean the more highly scheduled varieties) are among the biggest pharmacological money spinners. Melatonin is cheap and unpatentable (although there was several attempts at melatonin mimetics, e.g. agomelatine). It's unfathomable that melatonin is available only on prescription (and has become increasingly hard to obtain). I think the toxicity is close to water... one would be more likely to gag on the number of pills necessary to O.D. and I'm not sure if there's even a single melatonin related death on record.

[JimBrimble35]

Weird, where are you that Melatonin is prescription only and difficult to obtain? I Can get it at any drug and grocery store I walk into in a variety of doses.

[Reason077]

The UK.

[JimBrimble35]

I would not have guessed that. I imagine you could order it through amazon or a similar service?

[Reason077]

Not through Amazon UK, but it’s possible to order from US-based suppliers who will ship to the UK, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread.