Word: insomnia
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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...
...wait. It might be two or three hours before I drop off. And even then, I might wake up a couple of hours later and go through the whole thing again. I'm not alone, either. According to the National Sleep Foundation, about 60% of U.S. adults have insomnia every few days, and about a third go through this torment every night of their lives. I've been thinking more and more about those seductive commercials for Ambien, the pill that promises a full night of blissful sleep with few side effects...
...shops. "It might take a little bit longer, but within half an hour you'll have something," says Bampi. When the drought temporarily starved them of a daily fix, Bampi and her friends began searching for other ways to get stoned. Bampi started using benzodiazepines, sedatives usually prescribed for insomnia and anxiety, topping up whatever heroin she could find: "I used to mix them with smack, take five pills with a hit. The next day I'd be completely blank about what I'd been doing." Some of her friends tried the same crude cocktail, while others began experimenting with...
...INSOMNIA...