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Do they even prescribe that anymore? That shit was horrible
general practitioners hand it out like candy to anybody who's having trouble sleeping. mine sent me to a shrink because he wasn't comfortable perpetually filling trazodone for me but he offered me Ambien
You don't hear horror stories about it anymore. Who was it that almost drove off a cliff? Jack Nicholson?
Yup: https://www.news24.com/news24/i-warned-heath-says-nicholson-20080124
There was also that lady that drove to a gas station on ambien and had sex with a stranger then woke up the next morning and thought she had been raped
Holy shit
It was given out promotionally then. My GP gave me a free sample that the ambien company dumped on him.
he considered it a psych drug. this is the same Doctor who would ask me if I wanted a prostate exam or not during my physical. like who asks that? nobody wants one, but at a certain age everybody needs one every year. found out later it's because he was a germaphobe
"at least buy me a dinner first"
Ambien works almost exactly like benzos, it's no less nasty. Benzos at least tend to be more predictable than Ambien
Oh yeah. It still seems to be a preferred option. Dependency doesn't seem to be an issue, although tolerance does. Not everyone has quite OP's reaction, although it's not uncommon.