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...carries to bed with him the world's heaviest burden of responsibilities, Lyndon Baines Johnson, needs no drowsy syrups to help him get to sleep-and he often gets only five hours a night. Adman David Ogilvy takes a nightly dose of "a little yellow sleeping pill" which, his doctor assures him, is not habit-forming, and he falls asleep easily on his right side. Actress Julie Harris finds that a long run in an exacting role makes it progressively harder to sleep, sometimes reads aloud to herself for half an hour or more, then falls fast asleep with...
Many doctors doubt these extravagant claims, but the sleep-pill business is booming. The number of prescriptions written for barbiturates is meaningless-too many prescriptions are renewed, in defiance of doctors' orders and federal and state laws, and many prescriptions are forged. Americans spend an estimated $60 million a year, legally or not, on prescription-type sleeping pills. Another $17 million goes for over-the-counter items which, by federal law, must contain none of the potent opiates or barbiturates. After the harried insomniac has spent a few hours in drug-induced sleep, he is likely to wake...
Though it has not yet been proved, it seems likely that most predawn awakenings result from dreaming. The tensions of the day that a man carries to bed with him may be damped by a nightcap or pill, only to be reactivated by dreams after the first couple of hours, when sleep is deepest. It is in the study and explanation of dreaming that sleep scientists have recently made their most dramatic progress. The stuff that has been written about dreams would fill a library, and most of it makes as much sense as "such stuff as dreams are made...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Two antic newlyweds, plus a Hungarian gourmet and a pill-popper from New Jersey, amusingly find happiness in a bewildering New York brownstone...
...year ago, her 20-year-old son was nearly killed by four attacking thugs, and soon after recovering he was back in the hospital, near death, as a result of an auto accident. The strain was too much, and the mother opened her medicine cabinet and ate every pill...