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Article: "Americans may rely too heavily on sleeping pills" when there are safer options.(Report)(Brief article)
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- Pharma Marketletter
- Article date:
- August 14, 2006
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Americans with insomnia may be relying too heavily on sleeping pills instead of trying safer non-drug remedies, according to a new report from Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs, which recommends that consumers who take sleeping pills do so for the shortest period possible because of the risk of side effects and misuse.
The September 2006 issue of Consumer Reports finds that, in 2005, use of sleeping drugs in the USA is generally correlated to the growth in direct-to-consumer advertising of sleep medications. Pharmacists filled 43 million prescriptions for sleep drugs in 2005, a 32% rise from 2001. Prescription insomnia medications brought pharmaceutical companies ...