We don't need to sleep By Arcadia

In the October 2004 issue of Readers Digest they have an article on Provogil or the generic name, modafinil.
While desighned to help narcolepsy it was soon evident to help aid rescue workers or people on 24 hr. shifts, miliatary or whomever fells they quilify. It seems as though increasingly anyone can get this drug if they complain to their doctor that they are groggy all the time.
As quoted by Michael Wincor, "If sleep were that unnecessary, it was a major evolutionary mistake. Why did we evolve to need seven to eight hours of sleep a night if all it takes is an external agent & then we don't need to sleep? It's hard for me to concieve that."


Unlike other amphedmines it does not stimulate the nervous system because it works in a more localized part of the brain the hypothalimis, which controls the sleep wake cycle.

It was initially approved by the FDA in 1998 for narcolepsy.