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Talk Therapy Beats Drugs for Insomnia

By John M Grohol PsyD
September 29, 2004

Talk Therapy Beats Drugs for Insomnia
Boston researchers have found that cognitive behavioral therapy is more effective than sleeping pills in treating chronic sleep-onset insomnia.

In a study summarized in the Sept. 27 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School found non-drug techniques yield better short- and long-term results than the most widely prescribed sleeping pill, zolpidem, commonly known as Ambien.


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