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b'Americans are romantics at heart, and many of our romanticized ideals are captured in our music, everything from the lone cowboy in the Eagles\' "Desperado," to the rebel in George Thorogood\'s anthem "Get A Haircut," to Cyndi Lauper\'s "I Drove All Night." And while being a cowboy can indeed be a lonely profession, and getting a haircut isn\'t always a bad thing, driving all night, or more specifically driving while drowsy, is becoming an American epidemic. How much of an epidemic? To find out, I spoke with Dr. Anne Wheaton of the Center For Disease Control and Prevention, better known as the CDC. To read the summary of the report, follow this link: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6151a1.htm. This episode originally posted in January 2013.'