by Sixstrings » Sun 10 Jan 2010, 05:53:05
Hm, even taking these pills "occasionally" raises your risk of sudden death by 10-15%. $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hose who took sleeping pills nightly had a greater risk of death than those who took them occasionally, but the latter
risk was still 10 to 15 percent higher than it was among people who never took sleeping pills. Sleeping pills appear unsafe in any amount, Kripke writes in his online book, "The Dark Side of Sleeping Pills."
link Add to that, it's not even a good idea to be sleeping more than 6 or 7 hours per night:$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;There is really no evidence that the average 8-hour sleeper functions better than the average 6- or 7-hour sleeper," Kripke says, on the basis of his ongoing psychiatric practice with patients along with research, including the large study of a million adults (called the Cancer Prevention Study II).
And he suspects that
people who sleep less than average make more money and are more successful.
The Cancer Prevention Study II even showed that
people with serious insomnia or who only get 3.5 hours of sleep per night, live longer than people who get more than 7.5 hours.
link So.. if ambien ups your premature mortality risk by 15%, and not even an insomniac really needs to be taking it (insomniacs live longer), then why the heck are 25% of the American population taking these pills???