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First of all you should understand melatonine is not sleeping medication but a hormone that is understood to be secreted by a gland in the brains to induce/enforce a sleep pattern. It's completely different than the stuff kman mentioned. So the question is what you intend to use it for. If you go to bed in the morning and you can't get sleep then, I don't think you'll get far as you'll probably have a natural melatonine pulse in the evening too. It's silly and unhealthy to have such a rhythm anyway.
I've taken it once to try and adjust quicker to a new timezone, on this short experience I can't say if it actually works. Scientific evidence is not very thick yet.
There are still lots of questions about dosage in the medical community. The official Dutch pharmacotherapeutical guidebook recommends 2 mg but I've seen reports of far less. Up to 300 mg/day has been tried without clinically significant side effects.
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