Have You Tried Sleeping Pills?

Have you tried sleeping pill/sleeping pills? I tried it before and it was effective but then it gave me paranoia. So I haven't had a courage to try it again. So now when I do night shifts I need to get very tired first so that I can sleep straight through 5:30 PM or else I will wake up early and can't go back to sleep. So far I am doing good. I can get four to six hours and if I'm lucky I can get seven hours of sleep in between my night shift. But it is another story when kids are around especially now that they have two weeks break from school.