Article: Your LIFE: Could insomnia destroy your life? HEALTH Actor Heath Ledger died from an apparent overdose of sleeping pills last week. Here we describe the dangers of taking these drugs and natural ways to get a good night's rest.(Features)

Article: Perchance to fret: sleeping pills. (debate over the ...
The Economist (US);  September 12, 1992 ;     700+ words ...HALCION, a sleeping pill made by the American drug firm Upjohn, has demonstrated its ability to put the highest levels of government to sleep. George ...

Article: NEW SLEEPING PILLS SAFER, BUT USE ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  September 27, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... particularly at risk from sleeping pills. A prescription sleeping pill used occasionally helps ... hour longer. Worse, sleeping pills can actually cause sleep ... during the night. And sleeping pills make some users, particularly ...

Article: No more pillow talk Another restless night in bed? Don't reach ...
The Independent - London;  July 25, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Idzikowski, when you take a sleeping pill, the area that controls ... wide awake. Finally, sleeping pills cause "hangovers". "The day after taking a sleeping pill you can expect impaired ... In other words, sleeping pills can be the stuff of ...

Article: Study Reports Link Between Sleeping Pills and Death
University Wire;  May 7, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... reported using sleeping pills at least 30 times ... concluded that the sleeping pill users death risk ... death rates with sleeping pill use does not prove that the sleeping pills caused the deaths ... of giving out sleeping pills. "It would be ... uproot existing ...

Article: Mid-Night Sleeping Pill Developed
AP Online;  August 11, 1999 ;     683 words ... ... Writer AP Online 08-11-1999 Mid-Night Sleeping Pill Developed NEW YORK (AP) -- Sleeping pills always left school teacher Sharon Borntrager ... the nation's most widely prescribed sleeping pill that controls 80 percent of the market ...

Article: Ad campaign may jolt sales of sleeping pill.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  July 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... prescription sleeping pills, a Chicago ... for its new sleeping pill, Rozerem ... labels. Use of sleeping pills is one of the ... Takeda and other sleeping-pill makers. The ... prescription sleeping pills are known to ...

Article: Sleeping pills can be addictive
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 19, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... should again be contacted to determine if the person now can cope with life without the sleeping pill. What about the over-the-counter sleeping pills? These are nothing more than antihistamine drugs that have the side effect of making one ...