The letter requested an immediate end to the dissemination of "all sales aids, journal advertisements, websites and all other promotional materials and activities for Provigil that contain the same or similar violations."
In 2002, Provigil sold for $5 a pill and some insurers were reluctant to pay that price for narcolepsy because amphetamines were much cheaper, according to the Times.
The treatment of excessive sleepiness associated with sleep apnea and shift work sleep disorder with Provigil were not approved until January 2004. Right before the Summer Olympics in August 2004, the World Anti-Doping Agency added modafinil to the list of banned drugs after a runner in the 2003 World Track and Field Championships tested positive for it.
Provigil Addiction
On March 17, 2009, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania psychiatrist and addiction specialist, Dr Stefan Kruszewski, told USA Today that he was currently treating his third case of Provigil addiction. "I had two doctors back-to-back who were addicted to modafinil," he said, "so I became alarmed." Both were also alcoholics.
The same day, Bloomberg ran the headline, "Narcolepsy Pill Used as Smart Drug May Be Addictive," in reporting a study, by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, that found Provigil "effects the same brain chemicals as stimulants like Ritalin and amphetamines."
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