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  • Societal pressures to work more and at odd hours-evenings, weekends, the night shift, round-the-clock-have reduced Americans sleep time over the past century by about 20%. (Source:  "The Promise of Sleep" by William Dement and Christopher Vaughan, 1999)

  • At least 70 million Americans are sleep deprived with 60% chronically so. (Source:  National Center on Sleep Disorders Research.)

  • 45% of adults agree that they will sleep less in order to accomplish more. Shift workers (56%) are more likely to agree they will sleep less in order to get more work done compared to regular day workers (44%). (National Sleep Foundation 2000 Sleep in America Poll)

  • One-half of the American work force (51%) reports that sleepiness on- the-job interferes with the amount of work they get done. (National Sleep Foundation 2000 Sleep in America Poll)

  • Television and the Internet are prime contributors to Americans not getting enough sleep, causing 43% of adults to stay up later than they should. (National Sleep Foundation 2000 Sleep in America Poll)

  • 100,000 auto accidents and 1,500 deaths occur each year because of fall-asleep crashes. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

  • Sleep-deprived people who are tested by using a driving simulator or by performing a hand-eye coordination task perform as badly as or worse than those who are intoxicated.

  • Many people's depression can be attributed to the lack of a good night's sleep.

  • A great majority of adults think their sleep related problems are not serious enough to seek the services of a sleep specialist and therefore go on through life suffering from these disorders
 
 
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