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Nearly 13% of Americans use drugs or marijuana to fall asleep

The Independent·Julia Musto·6 months ago
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Nearly 13 percent of Americans are using medications or marijuana to help them fall asleep at night, new federal data reveals.

Some 5.2 percent use prescription sleep medications, 5.7 percent use over-the-counter medications or supplements like melatonin and 3.7 percent use marijuana or CBD products, according to new reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

The percentages are up markedly from the agency’s first estimate of prescription sleep aid use in 2013, which showed that about 4 percent of adults aged 20 and older had used prescription sleep aids in the past month.…

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