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Article: Americans May Be Relying Too Heavily on Sleeping Pills When Safer Remedies Are Available; Photo Available
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- U.S. Newswire
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- August 7, 2006
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YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- 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 United States is generally correlated to
the growth in direct-to-consumer advertising of sleep medications.
Pharmacists filled 43 million prescriptions for sleep drugs in 2005,