Letting teens sleep in would save the country roughly $9 billion a year

By implementing simple policy changes throughout the United States, the United States will receive an economic benefit of approximately $ 9 billion per year.

This is based on detailed new research by RAND. This is the first study to model domestic costs.

According to a survey released by Harvard economist Jeffrey A. Miron in 2010, imprisonment costs due to annual law enforcement and drug legalization can save about $ 48.7 billion annually with state savings. It was 33.1 billion dollars, totaling 15.6 billion dollars. Federal Government Although the United States is still delaying this issue, more than 20 countries are taking measures to get away from traditional punitive drug policies. One of them, in Portugal, decided to legalize all drug crime in 2001 - to recommend treatment or fines to lower level criminals rather than long-term imprisonment. It seems that Portugal has improved better than before, after the implementation period of about 15 years now.

How does sleep deprivation affect people's economic life? To get answers to this question, let's take a look at the sleep product market. This is estimated to be $ 23.7 billion a year. This includes products such as mattresses, eye masks, earplugs, sleeping music, CDs and all other products used to induce sleep. In addition, people like sleep using this money every year like you. If you increase the cost of visiting a doctor or medicine to solve this problem, that amount will be more.

One billion people worldwide are suffering from hypertension (chronic hypertension), and one in five people is undiagnosed. Approximately 24% of men and 9% of women are sleep apnea, and 80% of patients diagnosed with sleep apnea are unaware that they are suffering from sleep apnea. Even in the United States alone, medical costs, productivity losses and accident losses were $ 4.6 billion and $ 15 billion, respectively, due to hypertension and sleep apnea. At first glance, the connection between heart rate, hypertension and sleep apnea may seem surprising. This connection comes from the autonomic nervous system that connects the heart to the brain, stomach, esophagus, liver, intestine, pancreas, and important blood vessels (Figure 1). In 2003 ARIC study (N = 11,061) showed that people with low heart rate variability are 44 times more likely to develop high blood pressure within 9 years. The task of PhysioNet 2000 shows that the beat-based heart rate variation algorithm can correctly classify 35 sleep apnea records