The numbers in bold italics represent the maximum number of all respondents that may be considered to use a sleep aid (N = 278).
The doctor was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for giving Jackson a fatal dose of propofol, a powerful anesthetic the singer was using as a sleep aid.
Nembutal was once widely used as a sleep aid in the United States, and is now used primarily in veterinary medicine.
Three effective treatments are capsules of powdered ginger (they can also curb motion sickness), electrical stimulation of an acupressure point on the inside of the wrists, and round-the-clock use of vitamin B6, particularly when taken with the over-the-counter drug doxylamine, an antihistamine often used as a sleep aid.
The antidepressant trazodone (Desyrel), at a low dose, is frequently used as a sleep aid.
People who buy valerian, an increasingly popular herbal supplement used as a sleep aid, may not be getting what they are paying for.
Although melatonin is widely used as a sleep aid, a review of the research says there is little evidence that it works, either for jet lag, shift work or sleep difficulty caused by other medical or psychiatric problems.
The panel rejected a lawsuit brought by Jackson's mother claiming AEG Live was negligent in hiring the doctor who killed Jackson with an overdose of a hospital anaesthetic that the singer used as a sleep aid.
It can also be used as a sleep aid provided you find a presentation prepared by this guy I worked with years ago, Klaus.
"Any person in the sleep world will tell you the same thing: melatonin is not harmless, is vastly overused and should not be used as a sleep aid to treat insomnia," Michael Grandner, a sleep researcher at the University of Arizona, told HuffPost.
