U.S. dollar sales of prescription sleeping pills jumped 27% through last September, says IMS Health.
He says that doctors should probably only use sleeping pills for acute, short-term problems.
It is no wonder people here report a high demand for sleeping pills and anti-depressants.
But the patients didn't report that they "liked" the drug, as they do for other sleeping pills.
She uses the sleeping pills in addition to therapy, but instructs patients not to use them every night.
Following the fitness to work interview she took a number of sleeping pills.
Naima would often be sent to the pharmacy for aspirin, sleeping pills, painkillers.
Sleeping pills such as Ambien from Sanofi-Aventis and Lunesta from Sepracor have been some of most heavily advertised drugs.
But there was little objective improvement in patients who got the sleeping pills.
Too many people may be damaging their health by self-medicating with sleeping pills, according to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Many doctors are still reluctant to prescribe sleeping pills, which are considered potentially habit-forming and, for many users, cause next-day hangovers.
In 2008, the General Medical Council (GMC) found Dr Kerr guilty of misconduct for prescribing sleeping pills to a suicidal patient.
Milena opened the shoebox and started looking for her sleeping pills.
In the survey, 30% of people said they had taken sleeping pills for more than a month without getting advice while 14% had gone six months.
"Whenever studies are funded by non-pharmacological groups, we find every time that CBT is more effective than sleeping pills, " says Gregg Jacobs of the University of Massachusetts.
In the past three months the FDA has slapped cautionary labels on sleeping pills and yanked Novartis' constipation drug Zelnorm after that company's analysis showed heart problems.
The lifelong teetotaller and anti-smoker was addicted to sleeping pills.
Sleeping pills such as Ambien from Sanofi-Aventis and Lunesta from Sepracor (nasdaq: SEPR - news - people ) have been some of most heavily advertised drugs.
Rozerem, generically known as ramelteon, works completely differently from other sleeping pills, and may not need any of the restrictions from the Drug Enforcement Agency that affect other sleep aids.
"The public should be made aware of that there are alternatives to sleeping pills that might be better in the long term, " says University of Bergen psychologist Borge Sivertsen, who led the study.
It may also be helpful to avoid certain drugs such as sleeping pills or other sedatives and alcohol, which can all make the area around the throat relaxed and somewhat floppy while sleeping.
In the end, she lived as a recluse in her Paris apartment, increasingly dependent on the sleeping pills that may have caused the heart failure that ended her life 30 years ago Sunday.
Ambien, sold by French drug giant Sanofi-Synthelabo (nyse: SNY - news - people ), is currently the only one of these new sleeping pills approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Bad news for the makers of sleeping pills: A new report in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association says that a six-week course of psychological therapy may be more effective for insomnia than taking drugs.
In the past three months the FDA has slapped cautionary labels on sleeping pills and yanked Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people )' constipation drug Zelnorm after that company's analysis showed heart problems.
But there are tantalizing signs as the FDA prepares to review suvorexant that this drug may be fundamentally different from current sleeping pills like Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata, lacking their rare but troubling side effects, like memory loss and sleepwalking.
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And when sleeping pills aren't enough to help patients stay alert, a wakefulness drug called Provigil is already approved for excessive daytime sleepiness caused by narcolepsy, sleep apnea and shift-work sleep disorder--the exhaustion brought on in some people by working the night shift.
As part of that lawsuit, Picard also sued Claudine de la Villehuchet, the widow of Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, a French hedge fund manager who killed himself soon after the Ponzi scheme came to light by swallowing sleeping pills and slitting his wrists in his Manhattan office.
Gregg said he would have trouble sleeping after taking the pills, often remaining awake and alert into the early hours of the morning.
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