An excerpt from Dark Side of Sleeping Pills Chapter 8A. A free copy of the full book is available here. When we reported that people who took sleeping pills died 4.6 times faster and suffered more cancer,[66] I made quite certain that the FDA had reviewed the new...
NOTE: Dr. Kripke is responding to a study by Elisabetta Patorno, Robert J Glynn, Raisa Levin, Moa P Lee, and Krista F Huybrechts entitled Benzodiazepines and risk of all cause mortality in adults: cohort study. To date, Dr. Kripke’s questions have not been...
Abstract: Abstract Hypnotics (sleeping pills) are prescribed widely, but the economic costs of the harm they have caused have been largely unrecognized. Randomized clinical trials have observed that hypnotics increase the incidence of infections. Likewise, hypnotics...
This is a review of hypnotic drug risks and benefits, reassessing and updating advice presented to the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (United States FDA). Almost every month, new information appears about the risks of hypnotics (sleeping pills). The...
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