And when sleeping pills aren't enough to help patients stay alert, a wakefulness drug called Provigil is already approved for excessive daytime sleepiness caused by narcolepsy, sleep apnea and shift-work sleep disorder--the exhaustion brought on in some people by working the night shift.
Work at Worldport is divided into two "sorts, " a daytime and nighttime window where packages are unloaded from arriving planes, rerouted to their next ride and sent off again.