Ambien Abuse Rehab

When insomniacs used Ambien intermittently and at therapeutic doses and supervised, it can ease sleeping problems. Zolpidem would is usually prescribed as a second-line treatment in cases where nonpharmacological treatment has failed.

Ambien has played a role in a number of high-profile celebrity scandals recently, with its sedative properties being blamed for various unacceptable tweets and other public messages supposedly written under its effects. 

Almost 70% of emergency cases involving zolpidem feature female patients.

The abuse of Ambien is highest amongst people aged over 40.

But at higher doses, it starts to light up a more comprehensive array of benzodiazepine receptors, getting you high.  So when you take them frequently, it’s easy to grow dependent and addicted.  

The consumption of excessive quantities of zolpidem can cause overdose, leading to coma and even death.

As well as its recommended medical uses, zolpidem also has the potential to be used and abused recreationally because its sedative properties can produce an enjoyable “high” and mild euphoria, visual distortions and hallucinations, and various physically pleasurable sensations, which are boosted when grinding up zolpidem tablets and snorting the resultant powder or injecting zolpidem intravenously. 

In the beginning, some Ambien abuse side effects, including sleepwalking, “abnormal thinking,” and “strange behavior,”  were listed as extremely rare. Any anecdotal evidence of “sleep-driving,” “sleep eating,” or “sleep shopping,” having sex and cooking/eating food—all behaviors now associated with Ambien blackouts—were characterized as unusual quirks or attributed to mixing the medication with alcohol.   Most recreational users started taking the drug to treat insomnia but found that they could get high if they fought the drug’s sleep-inducing effect. Ambien lessens inhibitions and erases memories, an ideal combination for someone who cheats on their partner. The buzz created by the drug often enhances sex as well.