In its second recent article on a controversial topic, the New York Times discusses the risks of sleeping pills for older adults, citing some especially interesting statistics surrounding insomnia drug Ambien.
Call me nuts, but I want to talk more about sleeping pill use.
Hold your fire for a few paragraphs, please.
Just a week after I posted here about medical efforts to help wean older patients off sleeping pills — causing a flurry of comments, many taking exception to the whole idea as condescending or dismissive of the miseries of insomnia — researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Johns Hopkins published findings that reinforce concerns about these drugs.
