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...through, however, thanks to a loophole in the law designed to help AIDS patients and others who want to try experimental therapies from overseas. The agency is considering tighter restrictions on nonprescription food supplements, like amino acids, which are being used for everything from muscle building to battling insomnia...
...Aleo does not use hypnotism as a truth serum--although once a customer did ask her to use the procedure on his girlfriend to find out if she was having an affair--but that she uses a combination of psychotherapy and hypnotism for more practical reasons. Hypnotism can cure insomnia, phobias and anxiety reactions. It can speed up weight loss. It can even help LSAT, GRE and SAT test-takers who are having trouble concentrating on those series of timed multiple-choice questions...
Ethel: Our family doctor told us that he gave him 30 Seconals. He couldn't believe that this boy was depressed. Adrian said, "I have insomnia." He lied. He fooled a lot of people...
...overdose. She carried a virtual pharmacy around in her pocketbook. She drenched herself with alcohol. As she wrote in an early poem, "the odor of death hung in the air/ like rotting potatoes." She checked in and out of sanitariums. Doctors tried to minister to her hysteria, depression, anorexia, insomnia, wildly alternating moods, lacerating rages, trances, fugue states, terrible confusions, bouts of self-disgust...
...RISING TIDE of insomnia must be checked. I hereby call for the immediate formation of Students for Improving and Extending Sleep Today and Always (SIESTA). Given the dire circumstances in which we begin our struggle, SIESTA will take drastic actions to raise unconsciousness. We'll begin with a pajama-clad "sleep-in." At 10:00 tonight, let all those who would make things right assemble in front of University Hall. Bring pillows...