Hello, everyone, and how are you this morning? Another steamy day is unfolding on the Pharmalot corporate campus, where we have a busy day ahead. We trust you can relate. Deadlines, meetings and lots to read. And so, yes, we are downing a cup or two of stimulation to get us started. Feel free to join us. You never know when a little stimulation will help. Meanwhile, here are a few tidbits we found floating about. Hope you accomplish much today and stay in touch...
A New Approach To Developing Sleeping Pills (The Wall Street Journal)
Alzheimer's Patients On Failed Lilly Drug Showed No Improvement (Bloomberg News)
Johnson & Johnson Profit Drops By 20 Percent (Associated Press)
Two Antidepressants Were Ineffective Against Alzheimer's In Study (Reuters)
Glaxo & Pfizer AIDS Pill Outperformed Bristol Drug In Study (Bloomberg News)
NABI Quit-Smoking Vaccine Goes Up In Smoke (The Gazette)
Diabetes Group Slams UK's NICE Over Lucentis Opinion (Pharma Times)
Pfizer Pulls Extended Application For Macugen Indication In EU (Dow Jones)
Anti-Doping Chief Sees More Deals With Pharma Before Olympics (Bloomberg News)
EC Condemned Over Advisory Role Of Former EU Parliament Prez (The Parliament)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Please check this post for updates throughout the morning
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2 Comments
Sleeping pills are not only addicting but most people become tolerant after 2 weeks. My shrink friends are always having to taper patients off Ambien who have jacked their dose way above the highest recommended dose of 10 mg/night. The psychological dependence is horrendous. Combined with ETOH worse. I had a patient who took an Ambien in LaGuardia with a beer chaser just after boarding a plane to Paris. Retrograde amnesia kicked in, and when he landed in France he had no memory of how he got there.
If physicians promoted better sleep hygiene we wouldn't have so many patients hooked on sleeping pills, but it is quicker to write a script for Ambien.
I respect Original's point, but people are obviously different. I have used 10 mg. of generic Ambien for a couple of years. I have never been tempted to take more, it works as well now as two years ago, and I have had no problems with it of which I am aware. Indeed, I sometimes take 5 mg. which is almost as effective. Without getting into the medicine,there are good reasons I use this drug rather than non-pharm measures.
Short of definitive studies, we should probably avoid assertions of what is true for "most people."