This sounds like a bad horror movie:
Megacorporation launches a pill to improve your quality of life...check
Pill becomes immensely popular...check
Pill has side effects...check
...that make you shamble around in a daze and feed your insatiable hunger...check
...for human flesh.
No check on that last one, Phew.

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As with any Sleep AID!!! Ambien is meant to be used on a temporary basis. As in, not LONG-TERM. Many Dr's RX meds and allow patients to become dependent on the drugs, rather than trying to find an underlying cause. Such is the case with Ambien. It is not meant to be used as a long term medication. Sleeplessness is not a disease. It is a symptom of other problems, and many dr's are just too lazy to care about their patients welfare, and use drugs as the easy way out. Obviously, that will be changing in the case of Ambien. About time.
P.S. I used Ambien, briefly, without any adverse side effects. Note the word BRIEFLY.

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While on Ambian, my best friend made and entire lasagna and didn't know it until the next morning when she walked into the kitchen and found the dirty dishes all over the place, and the lasagna in the fridge. (AND IT WAS GOOD!)

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While I agree with T. Allen. I don't agree that all sleeping disorders, as manifestations of other conditions, are easily solved. Some people have conditions (such as borderline personality disorder) or other mental conditions that have been diagnosed and are being treated but the treatment can sometimes take years. Sure it is easier to take a pill but these people are extremely distraught and have many other issues to deal with. Therefore, I don't think that ALL doctors who prescribe sleep aids on a longer term basis are "lazy" and "don't care about the patient's welfare". Furthermore, ambien is a short term sleep aid because in most people it tends to lose its effectiveness after a period of time. Therefore, its therapeutic effects are no longer therapeutic. There are other medications that can be used longer term but in the case the ambien continues to work without having to increase the dose, then it can be used longer.

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