LONDON, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The British Association for Psychopharmacology has created guidelines to help psychiatrists and physicians treat those with sleep problems, researchers say.
Members of the association met with clinicians and sleep disorder experts from the United States and Europe to develop a consensus statement on best evidence-based treatment of sleep and circadian rhythm disorders.
The guidelines, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, point out insomnia can often be improved with specialist cognitive behavioral therapy targeted at insomnia that is as effective as prescription medications for short-term treatments for chronic insomnia, but such therapy is likely to have a longer-lasting effect than drug treatment.
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