A Facebook group which is aimed at answering questions regarding Cephalon’s Provigil/Modafinil anti-narcolepsy drug is proving popular with consumers who have been prescribed other stimulants such as Ritalin, but who would prefer to use Provigil/Modafinil. A drug which has a far more benign effect on the human dopamine receptors.
Ritalin is a heavily prescribed (and even [...]
LYING rigid on the dancefloor, Louise Downham couldn’t move a muscle. Out clubbing with her mates, she had suddenly crumpled to the ground – unable to get back up.
“I was conscious, but I couldn’t move,” remembers the mum-of-three. “The one bonus was that the entire Cambridge United squad were in there, back in the days [...]
A young man I’ll call Alex recently graduated from Harvard.
As a history major, Alex wrote about a dozen papers a semester. He also ran a student organization, for which he often worked more than forty hours a week; when he wasn’t on the job, he had classes.
Weeknights were devoted to all the schoolwork that he [...]
Practice recommendations to diagnose and treat excessive daytime sleepiness in the family practice setting are reviewed in an article published in the March 1 issue of American Family Physician.
“About 20 percent of adults in the United States report a level of daytime sleepiness sufficient to interfere with daily activities, and excessive daytime sleepiness is the [...]