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Article: Scientists reveal key to good night's sleep: go to bed later
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- July 23, 2000
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SCIENTISTS have discovered they can wean four out of five chronic
insomniacs off sleeping pills by telling them not to go to bed until
they are tired.
The treatment, which is part of a new bedtime routine that may
not actually involve going to bed, is being devised by sleep experts
at Glasgow University's department of psychology.
The research, to be published later this year, could make inroads
into the pounds 60m lost to the Scottish economy annually through
lost productivity as a result of sleeplessness - a condition
experienced by 10% of the adult population. It could also cut the
pounds 2m spent in Scotland on sleeping pills.
Later this year Professor Colin Espie's research, which cured ...