44 Ambien Stories That Will Creep You The Eff Out

Nonbenzodiazepines, Zopiclone, Zimmovane, Zolpidem and Zaleplon were adopted as a safer alternative. Known as Ambien, it's hugely popular in the US. 40 million prescriptions are issued for it annually, but there's a vast black market trade. Like Oxycodone, it's been wildly overprescribed.

From the early days, people were reporting strange side effects, which were dismissed as "rare", but I know plenty of people who disagreed with that. Patients would believe they had a good, full night's sleep. But they exhibited uncharacteristic behaviour, appeared awake but weren't and remembered nothing.

Increasingly, headlines exposed celebrity's shame from Ambien "blackouts". Racist tweets, trashing hotel rooms, physical assaults and challenging FAR bigger people to a fight. Dubbed "Ambien zombies", police reported people were driving and cooking while fast asleep. Who continues prescribing something so potentially dangerous?

Then it happened. People were waking up to discover their partner lying dead, butchered by them. They will never remember. As people do, they'll spend every day imagining the worst. I think death is preferable.

Merck have a new, safer drug at the ready. Don't believe it.

For a few years, authorities have been calling for the discontinuation of this drug. Despite the vast profits, litigation would negate all that. Given that scientists agree that the phenomenon is real, Ambien will become a controlled substance.

All those regular users are addicted and if I know, so do the cartels. They did the same with Oxycodone and Xanax. Where there's a fat profit, they appear with their fake pills full of fentanyl.

This is America's next drug epidemic. No sleeping pills should be used for more than 2 weeks. It prevents complete sleep cycles, crucial for body and mind.