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Mission Statement This website was created with one major goal: to provide You, the consumer, with the most comprehensive one-stop resource possible for information about sleep disorders, the causes of sleep deprivation, and it's treatment. Our goal is to collect and present to you FREE, authoritative, and unbiased information about…
The Status of Sleep in America
The Problem In the U.S. alone, there are approximately 40 million adults in the U.S. who suffer from sleep disordered breathing. According to the National Institutes of Health, about 18 million Americans, many of whom go undiagnosed, suffer from sleep apnea.
There are 85
recognized sleep disorders, the most recognizable of which may be
insomnia,
The Treatments
Sleep drugs could be the next antidepressants - moderately useful
drugs turned into blockbusters by aggressive marketing.
There's almost no public funding for for studying sleeping pills, - which means that information about these drugs comes almost solely form company- sponsored research. There's a huge financial incentive for drug companies to turn the volume up full blast. With few breakthroughs in the pipeline and several blockbusters- the cholesterol medication Zocor and the antidepressant Paxil, for instance - about to lose their patent protection, big pharmaceutical companies are desperate for new revenue streams. Compared with the $11 billion spent yearly on antidepressants, according to the pharmaceutical consulting firm IMS Health, the $1.7 billion sleeping pill market is virtual virgin territory. Psychiatrists and gerontologists are most likely to write prescriptions for sleep aids |
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