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Britney's Drug Photographed in Purse Identified as Anti-Sleep Medication
Wednesday October 24, 2007

Britney Spears
October 22, 2007
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Photographers snapped a package of Provigil, a prescription drug used to treat excessive daytime sleepiness (and narcolepsy), in Britney Spears' open purse as she made her way to her first co-parenting class with Kevin Federline Wednesday at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

“Unlike a traditional stimulant with side effects such as hyperactivity and inattentiveness, the primary effect of this medication is only to help keep you from falling asleep,” Dr. Mark Milstein, a New York neurologist, tells Usmagazine.com. “Somebody who is living a celebrity lifestyle, who frequently has to be up very early one day and then very late the next, could develop very disordered sleep patterns”

Provigil cannot be abused as a drug, the doctor says. Spears is currently under court order to take two random drug tests per week.

“This medication won’t give you a ‘high,’ like a stimulant would,” Dr. Milstein adds.

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