Archive for sleeping pills

Police: Preschool teacher slipped sleeping pills into tots sippy cups

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

A Kiddie Academy preschool teacher in Morgan Hill, Calif., was arrested on Monday after the school called police because they suspected she was drugging the children. Debbie Gratz, 59, was fired on Friday after Gratz’ colleague witnessed Gratz allegedly slipping small pieces of pills inside the children’s sippy cups. Gratz was the teacher of classroom of ... read more »

New type of sleeping drug blocks wakefulness, rather than causing sleepiness

Sunday, June 17th, 2012

Pharma company Merck announced results at a sleep conference recently from a large clinical trial on its new sleeping aid called suvorexant. These results demonstrated that the new drug allowed people with chronic insomnia to get to sleep faster and sleep longer than those taking a placebo. In one study, after 3 months of treatment, ... read more »