Insomniacs Failing Drugs Suffer from Sleep Apnea

Researchers at the Sleep and Human Health Institute and Maimonides Sleep Arts & Sciences, Ltd investigated drug failure in 1210 chronic insomnia patients and found 91% of those who completed sleep studies actually suffered from previously undiagnosed sleep apnea, a critical factor likely to be aggravating their insomnia.

Published on Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Pharmacotherapeutic Failure in a Large Cohort of Patients With Insomnia Presenting to a Sleep Medicine Center and Laboratory: Subjective Pretest Predictions and Objective Diagnoses
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/ar ... X/fulltext

Pharmacotherapy Failure in Chronic Insomnia Patients (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdm1kTF ... e=youtu.be

In other words, doctors can't recognize sleep-disordered breathing problems and instead shove pills down their patient's throats.

a survey common to primary care yielded many false-negative results

What survey are they referring to? The Epworth sleepiness scale?