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When would you consider prescribing a wakefulness promoting agent for excessive daytime sleepiness from insufficient sleep?
i.e. no sleep disorder diagnosis, unsuccessful behavioral interventions for improved sleep
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I would never consider proscribing an alerting medication for someone with insufficient sleep. Behaviorally insufficient sleep is a diagnosis in and of itself. The treatment for excessive daytime sleepiness in the case of insufficient sleep is changing behavior to allow for more time in bed. I would...
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