Our Children Aren't Sleeping and We're Medicating Them

 From the PharmaLive.com News Archive - Jul. 27, 2010

A new survey of child psychiatrists indicates that insomnia is a 
major problem among children in mental health treatment and at least 
a quarter of these patients are given sleep medication. The results 
of the survey, conducted by Judith Owens, MD, a sleep expert with 
Hasbro Children's Hospital, and colleagues, suggests that management 
of insomnia in this population is a common practice, although the 
clinical approach varies widely. The study is published in the August 
2010 edition of Sleep Medicine.

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