#4_Tricks_to_Sleep_All_Night_Like_a_Baby (World Health)

There is an advertising-fueled medicine myth in America that a little pill can cure you. Sleeping pills are one of the more widely used meds prescribed to approximately 60 million people in the United States. However, these began coming under scrutiny when a British Medical Journal Online article in Maytriggered sleepless nights after reporting the association with some common sleeping pills to a four-fold increased risk of death—even for those taking small doses. Nonetheless, the Chicago Tribune reported this week: "Can a safer Ambien make billions? Merck aims to find out."

However, not all physicians agreed with the report. Carl W. Bazil, M.D., Ph.D., who holds dual degrees in medicine and pharmacology, is a professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was one who questioned the study. He said: “There is an association there, but that does not prove that the pills themselves cause the problem. There may be other related contributing factors.” Prescription sleeping pills tied to increased risk/CBS News Video.

Dr. Bazil said: “It did not prove any cause to the problems seen, only an association. For example, the increased risks seen with sleeping medication may actually be due to the insomnia that led to the prescription in the first place. If that is true, failing to treat the insomnia may actually lead to even worse outcomes.”

Even losing an hour or two of sleep can be problematic

Sleep is so important that even losing an hour or two a night can interfere with a person’s judgment. With interrupted sleep, what can eventually happen is “an involuntary pattern of poor relaxation and sleep interference with associated depression and poor functioning levels,” added Dr. Bazil. He says that the sleepless cycle can be broken by medication, but believes that “behavioral techniques such as meditation are also very helpful.”

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