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Beware of the Sleeping Pill Stilnox
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung February 21st, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleeping Pills.
If you are into the need to use sleeping pills, be on the lookout for Stilnox which has reportedly changed labels. Also known as Zolpidem, can affect people in the form of sleep-walking and sleep-driving. Hence, the manufacturers are being ordered to provide warning labels and have been categorized as a schedule 4 prescription medicine. The main reason here was to avoid potential abuse and illegal use of the said sleeping pill.
In 2000, Stilnox became the first product containing zolpidem to be marketed in Australia. To January 4, 2008, the TGA had received 1032 reports of suspected reactions to zolpidem products, most received over the past 12 months and relating to sleep-walking, sleep-eating and sleep-driving.
The TGA will meet the National Prescribing Service to discuss additional educational materials for prescribers, emphasising the need to use sleeping medicines only where clinically indicated, and for short periods of time.
(Source) Herald Sun Australia
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Ambien Overdose Linked to Heath Ledger’s Death
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung January 29th, 2008 in SLEEP News, Sleep Issues, Sleeping Pills.
Most people want to get the most out of what they can from sleeping pills like Ambien. But while they are known to provide temporary relief as far as helping people sleep, they may not necessarily produce the much needed sleep that we all look forward to. They are remedies but while they can allow you to sleep for a while, you may very well start to become immune to them and worse, get hooked on them without getting any sleep solution in the process.
Ambien has been in the headlines since there are rumors that is had something to do with Heath Ledger’s death. But as stated, they are just rumors and nothing has been scientifically proven just yet.
Did Heath Ledger die of an accidental overdose of sleeping tablets?
Among the many pills found near the actor’s body was the drug Ambien. Last week, Hollywood star Jack Nicholson said he’d warned Ledger against the sleeping pill.
“I tell people about Ambien. Somebody said: ‘Take this, it’s mild.’ I almost drove off a cliff 50 yards from my house.”
At the moment there is no evidence that Ambien played a part in Ledger’s death. However, the drug has been linked with other bizarre and terrifying experiences.
(Source) Daily Mail
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Quick2Sleep for Stressed People
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung January 6th, 2008 in How to sleep better, Sleeping Pills.
For people who always find themselves on the go, slowing down is usually not an option. But for people who have to consider that without sleep would mean risks to health, adhering towards the proper sleeping habits may need to be done.
Unfortunately, most people have difficulty sleeping by the time the need to really sleep comes in. Stress is usually something that can make people sleep easily but for others, it only makes them toss and turn to look for that proper sleeping position so that they can doze off soundly.
But now people have an option to use a natural sleeping aid called Quick2Sleep. People are apprehensive when it comes to sleeping aids but this is one thing that is worth checking out.
Tossing, turning? Is the stress of being back to work keeping you up at night? Need help to get to sleep quickly? When you don’t have 8 hours or cannot take a prescription sleep aid there’s a revolutionary all natural sleep aid available in a fast dissolving strip that allows you to get to sleep almost instantly. Quick2Sleep
is the revolutionary natural sleep aid delivered via a fast-acting dissolving strip that instantly melts in your mouth. A proprietary blend of all natural ingredients quickly enters the blood stream and induces a safe, sound sleep within 15 minutes. This unique formula and revolutionary delivery method is a true breakthrough in sleep aid treatment that insomnia sufferers have been searching for. Most importantly it’s safe, non-habit forming, and it works!
Source: Reuters
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Sleep goes Beyond the Sleeping Pills
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung January 1st, 2008 in Health Issues, Sleeping Pills.
Don’t let new sleeping pills fool you. While many claim that they are the answer to your sleeping problems, most are bound to fall short of satisfying sleep solution expectations. There are desperate people out there and while most disregard the advice of most physicians and sleep specialists to follow the various practices to get better sleep habits, most sleepless people still believe that solutions rely heavily on the meds.
While sleeping drugs can be a good recourse, bear in mind that most medicine pills have side effects. Some may be enumerated but most of the effects that they have cannot be immediately recognized until the time comes when people actually use sleeping pills as sleeping aids to solve the sleep puzzle.
(Source) If you believe the TV ads, all it takes to get a blissful night’s sleep is to pop a sleeping pill.
But newer, heavily advertised drugs like Ambien, Lunesta and Sonata don’t work much better than dummy placebo pills, according to a recent analysis financed by the National Institutes of Health.
On average, the newer drugs helped people get to sleep just 12.8 minutes sooner than placebos, the New York Times reported. Total sleep time increased by just 11.4 minutes.
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Sleeping on Ice
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung December 1st, 2007 in SLEEP News, Sleep Issues, Sleeping Pills.
We are all aware that a lot of people rely heavily on sleeping pills. Now we all know a lot of these pill put into the market today, but there has to be a distinguishing factor as to which are ideal and which are dangerous. Some of these pill may reach a point of becoming addictive and chances are people would likely have more than just sleep problems to worry about.
It should be remembered, sleep problems can be treated but pairing it with a drug-related problem such as reliance on methamphetamine hydrochloride or Modafinil, may produce more problems than results.
(Source)”What ice, or crystal, does is it actually hooks into your reward system in the brain, and the reward system is designed so that you can recognise positive stimuli, remember them, act on them,” he said.
“But by overdoing it, by chronic use, you end up with a depletion of these neurotransmitters.”
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