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Why Don’t People Sleep?

February 20, 2016 by therestdoctor

“Can’t I just treat my insomnia with a book?”  My interlocutor was sure there was a book out there (including one of my mine) that “could get me to sleep just fine.” Certainly many could do with a brief bout of Sleep School – understanding how sleep affects their health, performance, pleasure, pain, income and mortality […]

Zee Drugs (8/18/14)

August 18, 2014 by therestdoctor

Zee Story The back of the alphabet is pushing for primacy. The masked avenger Zorro appeared in 1919; the remarkably popular Z cars television crime series transfixed Britain in the 1960s. Now is era of  Z drugs. Zolpidem, zaleplon, and eszopiclone – respectively named for the commercially minded ambien, sonata and lunesta – are today’s […]

Amazing Ambien (3/19/12)

March 19, 2013 by therestdoctor

The Rock Star Drug Steve Tyler of Aeorosmith took it to sooth an aching foot.  He fell off the stage.  One Calgary man claimed it made him take a bottle of vodka out of the fridge, down it and drive directly into other cars – all while he was asleep!  My patients have woken with […]

How To Get Off Sleeping Pills (1/15/13)

January 15, 2013 by therestdoctor

When Pill = Sleep In America alone, tens of millions take sleeping pills to sleep each night.  Yet sleeping pills don’t produce natural sleep.  They worsen memory. They increase the risk of death. But people can’t stop. Physically or behaviorally addicted, they know pill = sleep. Here are some reasons why that happens – and […]

Who’s Using All Those Sleeping Pills? (10/3/12)

October 3, 2012 by therestdoctor

So Who Is Using Sleeping Pills? Lots of people – especially people not prescribed them.  According to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (reported in the BBC), a full third of adult Britons complain of insomnia. Fully half of these insomniacs take prescription sleeping pills their doctors don’t know about.  Thirty percent take them for at least […]

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Dr. Matthew Edlund
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