Word: ambien
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...through the whole thing again. I'm not alone, either. According to the U.S. National Sleep Foundation, about 60% of American adults experience insomnia every few days, and about a third go through this torment every night. I've been thinking more and more about asking my doctor for Ambien (known as Stilnoct in the U.K. and Stilnox on the Continent)?the pill that promises a full night of blissful sleep with few side effects...
...through the whole thing again. I'm not alone, either. According to the U.S. National Sleep Foundation, about 60% of American adults experience insomnia every few days, and about a third go through this torment every night. I've been thinking more about asking my doctor for Ambien (known as Stilnoct in the U.K. and Stilnox on the Continent) - the pill that promises blissful sleep with few side effects. Getting a prescription might not be the best idea, though, says Gregg Jacobs, an insomnia expert with the Sleep Disorders Center at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
...advantage of Ambien or Sonata (another safe, effective sleeping pill), says Jacobs, is that CBT takes a few weeks to kick in, and the drugs can help bridge that...
Getting a prescription might not be the best idea, though, says Gregg Jacobs, an insomnia expert with the Sleep Disorders Center at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. It isn't that Ambien doesn't work. But in a study published last week in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Jacobs and his colleagues show that another treatment, called cognitive behavior therapy, or CBT, works better...
...Drugs like Ambien get you to sleep," says Jacobs, "but they don't get at stress and anxiety, which are often the underlying cause of insomnia." Once you're off the drug, insomnia usually returns with a vengeance. In his placebo control study, a relatively brief course of CBT, lasting about 2 1/2 hours over six weeks, showed no such problem...