It is important to get good sleep for a large chunk of the workers of Canada and apparently one can identify just how much of them are suffering from sleep disorders like insomnia. Work output is gravely affected, costing the Canadian economy millions of dollars from lackadaisical output and it seems that unless such an issue is addressed, these losses will evidently show in the operating performance figures of most businesses situated there today.

Direct costs included $191.2 million for doctors’ visits, $36.6 million for transportation to and from these visits, $16.5 million for prescription drugs, $1.8 million for over-the-counter remedies, and a whopping $339.8 million for alcohol used as a sleep aid.

Eight percent of individuals in the study, average age almost 44 and 60 percent female, reported having used alcohol to fall asleep, including 28 percent of those with insomnia symptoms or syndrome.

(Source) Washington Post

Tags: alcohol, canada, good sleep, insomnia symptoms, losses, sleep aid, Sleep Disorders

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