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...combat wakefulness, Americans filled more than 50 million prescriptions in 2008 for sleeping pills like Ambien and spent more than $600 million on over-the-counter sleep-inducing supplements such as melatonin and valerian root. Others seek medical treatment or psychological therapy to get to sleep, while the rest of us accept our nocturnal tossing and turning as just another of life's unavoidable nuisances and gulp an extra cup of coffee the next morning to compensate. (See the Year in Health, from...
...about 10% of Americans still suffer from persistent insomnia (defined as difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep) - namely, falling asleep or being functionally impaired by sleepiness during the day - and researchers continue to search for its causes and cure. Now a new study in the journal Sleep suggests a surprising treatment for the sleepless: the Internet. Web-based treatments have emerged for all kinds of bad habits and disorders, such as overeating, smoking, depression - and insomnia. (Read "Can a Sleep Disorder Predict Parkinson...
While prior studies have shown that online therapy can help alleviate insomnia, little research has compared it directly with other approaches. Vincent's study, on the other hand, found that 35% of those who received online treatment reported that they were "much" or "very much" improved, compared with 50% of those who received in-person group therapy using the same behavioral-cognitive approach at Vincent's sleep clinic at the University of Manitoba in Canada. The benefit of the online strategy, of course, is that it can work for people who don't have access to face-to-face therapy...
...part, that's because few overdose victims get immediate medical treatment. While most overdoses take place in the presence of other people (surveys of heroin users suggest that 58% to 86% were not alone when an overdose occurred), many bystanders don't call the authorities for help, usually because they're high themselves. Naloxone kits can be crucial in these circumstances...
...program called Project Lazarus, which is slated to launch this summer, will target that very group of at-risk patients, who are not often included in other initiatives. Project Lazarus will hand out naloxone kits and offer training, including instruction on rescue breathing, to patients who are starting methadone treatment for pain - methadone is stronger and lasts longer than other painkillers, which puts users at a higher risk of overdose - and those beginning treatment for addiction with the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine, who are by definition at high risk for drug relapse and overdose...