UK addicted to sleeping pills: Stress-related insomnia on rise since start of the economic crunch Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2142663/UK-addicted-sleeping-pills-Stress-related-insomnia-rise-start-economic-crunch.html#ixzz1ujcX77zl
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