That means, for at least eight nights out of the month, they toss and turn before finally drifting off, wake up in the middle of the night or get up before planned.
Almost one-fifth of those surveyed use drugs to counteract sleeplessness at least once a week, and 24 per cent of those said they had sleep-medication dependency problems. Sleeping pills are normally not recommended for regular use for more than two weeks, but the magazine found that 38 per cent of those who had taken a sleep aid in the past month said they had been doing so for more than two years.
The most common cause of sleeplessness was stress. Respondents said they worried about family, money, health and their jobs.
The survey, conducted by Consumer Reports National Research Center in April, randomly recruited 1,466 U.S. adults by telephone for the online survey.
