{"id":622946,"date":"2026-05-04T13:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622946\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:32:26","slug":"sleepless-americans-are-relying-on-medicine-and-pot-to-doze-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622946\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepless Americans Are Relying on Medicine and Pot to Doze Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Nearly 13% of US adults are relying on medication, supplements or marijuana to help them sleep, a new federal study found, underscoring the potential need for new treatment options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">They are relying on prescription medication, over-the-counter drugs, supplements, marijuana or CBD to help fall or stay asleep, according to a survey by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1067761D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">National Center for Health Statistics<\/a>. The survey, conducted in 2024, included results from more than 31,500 people who were asked about their use of sleep aids over the past month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 13% of US adults are relying on medication, supplements or marijuana to help them sleep, a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[6778,28,269891,2605,30350,97,253,28089,27252,243,269890,30577,14295,1022,1764],"class_list":["post-622946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-austin","tag-business","tag-centessa-pharmaceuticals-adr","tag-drugs","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-industrials","tag-industries","tag-medication","tag-national-center-for-health-statistics","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-prognosis","tag-texas","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}