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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 2, 2009, Winnipeg, Manitoba m y k Page a8 a 8 Winnipeg free press Friday january 2, 2009 Canada Winnipeg repress. Com save time shop on line . Com with any Trade Worth $ 2,000 you can buy. Do r # 0079 1400 Mcphillips st. Hotline includes mpg 1 800 721 5069 100 vehicles must be sold in 5 Days. Every vehicle Sale priced for this event t i s is a once in a lifetime e offer done t miss out 2008 Chev Cobalt it 4 door automatic air condition Power windows & locks tilt & cruise am pm cd & More. St. # a16256 As Low As 9550 $ 9550 or $ 74 a w 2008 Pontiac g6 4 door automatic air condition Power windows & locks tilt & cruise am pm cd & More. St. # a16224 As Low As 10800 $ 10800 or $ 83 a w 2008 Pontiac grand prix 4 door automatic air condition spoiler Alum wheels Power windows & locks tilt & cruise am pm cd & More. 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We were very surprised to see that so Many people use alcohol As a Way to promote sleep particularly because it has More detrimental than beneficial effects on sleep says Charles Morin a professor of psychology at Laval University and one of the authors of the study published this week in the journal sleep. Eight per cent of the Sample reported using alcohol As a sleep Aid. Among people with insomnia 28 per cent reported self medicating with alcohol. The study one of the first in Canada to put numbers to the societal and economic Burden of insomnia estimates the total annual costs of the sleep disorder in Quebec alone is $ 6.5 billion. We know insomnia is a very prevalent problem it has a very negative Impact on Peoples Quality of life Morin says. If we can show that its 10 times More costly not to treat insomnia because of its Impact on absenteeism from work and reduced productivity than it is to treat it Why Arentt we treating it More often part of the problem is that so few people seek help. Morin says some people take sleeping pills but there Are Many More who self medicate with Over the counter products or worse with alcohol. Why do people do that is it because they re scared of using prescribed sleeping pills because of the stigma associated with it or because they dont know there Are other treatment options available the research found the Money spent on the use of booze As a sleep Aid far exceeds costs associated with visits to doctors and the use of prescription pills and Over the counter products from antihistamines to herbal teas. The idea that schnapps before your bedtime is Good for your sleep might have been right about 100 years ago As Long As it was the occasional schnapps says or. Adam Moscovitch medical director of the Canadian sleep Institute and associate clinical professor at the University of Calgary. When you Knock yourself out As a Way of dealing with it if you cant shut you mind off in any other Way then alcohol has a very negative effect on your sleep. It deprives you of any of the deep stages of sleep and once it wears off it has a rebound effect. So your problem becomes much worse. Of the $ 6.5 billion estimated annual costs associated with insomnia in Quebec the biggest indirect Cost by far $ 5 billion was reduced productivity. The highest direct Cost $ 339.8 million was Money spent on alcohol to promote sleep. By comparison an estimated $ 16.5 million was spent on prescription drugs and $ 1.8 million for Over the counter products. The study involved Quebec Only but the researchers Are doing a similar study throughout Canada. I expect we will get pretty much the same results Morin says. The study based on a random Sample of 948 adults distinguished Between those people who drink at the end of the Day and those who use booze specifically to help them sleep meaning they drink before bedtime or in the Middle of the night. The worrisome thing is that insomnia is becoming More common sleep researchers say. True insomnia is a significant sleep disturbance lasting for at least a month. People have trouble falling asleep staying asleep waking too Early or waking up and feeling like you were run Over by a truck Moscovitch says. Of the 948 volunteers 493 52 per cent were classified As Good sleepers 308 33 per cent As having symptoms of insomnia and 147 15 per cent As having insomnia syndrome. According to the study the annual Cost of insomnia related health care visits was an estimated $ 85.3 million each person with insomnia costs society an estimated $ 552 a year in work related absences and $ 4,154 in reduced productivity. Can West news service Calgary this City logged its first four homicides of 2009 in less than a Day after a report of a fatal assault was followed thursday evening by a shooting attack that took three lives. Police have confirmed that three people died in gunplay at Bolsa a vietnamese restaurant in a strip mall in the Cit yes Southeast around 4 p. M. Its not the Way we wanted to Start the new year said Calgary police duty Insp. Dean Lagrange. Restaurant owner Viet tran said he received a frantic phone Call from his wife thursday evening. She just said come right away theress shooting in the restaurant said tran. When police arrived at the restaurant they found one Man dead face Down in the parking lot outside. Sources said two other people were found dead inside the restaurant. Police said at least two gunmen entered the business and opened fire at a table in the Middle of the restaurant. The evening gun attack came just Over 14 hours after police were called to another strip mall for Calgary yes first reported homicide of 2009. A male in his 20s died in Hospital earlier in the Day following an altercation outside coyotes bar and Grill in the Cit yes Northeast. There were 32 murders in Calgary in 2008. Can West news service everyone has cold feet at this wedding boozing before bedtime costly the High Price of insomnia studied by Sharon Kirkey alcohol. Deprives you of any of the deep stages of sleep and once it wears off it has a rebound effect. So your problem becomes much worse. Calgary rings in new year with four slayings Darryl Dyck / the Canadian press a walk Down the Ai Ai aisle newlyweds Gerhard and Jennifer Pyper of Langley b. C., kiss after taking the plunge thursday into the frigid Waters of English Bay in Vancouver. The couple married saturday but donned their wedding duds instead of their swimwear and took part in the annual Polar Bear swim. The Vancouver Polar Bear swim club has kicked off the new year in Chilly fashion since its first swim on Jan. 1, 1920. A _ 08_ Jan 02 09. Ind a8 1 / 1/ 09 8 58 36 pm ;