This shit is getting out of hand. These Doctor's have to know about it. I believe between Ambien, (Zolpidem) and Oxycontin, they truly exhibit why Doctors are said to take the
Hippocratic Oath
Truly Hypocritical!!!!! These are the people we (((TRUST))) with our health?!?!?!
Ambien Zombies
No doubt as nurses, we have an amusing “Ambien” story or two we could tell. From the drug induced bazaar ramblings of patients to nudity filled escapades around the nurse’s station. Typically we would characterize this as an adverse drug reaction. For most who react negatively to the drug it is merely embarrassing events; incoherent emails, odd-conversations, the cooking and eating of strange concoctions of food and non-food substances. But on closer examination a long list of bizarre and more sinister behaviors are emerging after the use of this hypnotic. A tragic trend appears as reports of assault, sleep-driving, vehicular manslaughter, murder and even mass murders have occurred after taking Ambien.
“On March 29, 2009, Robert Stewart, 45, stormed into the Pinelake Health and Rehab nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina and opened fire, killing eight people and wounding two. Stewart’s apparent target was his estranged wife, who worked as a nurse in the home. She hid in a bathroom and was unharmed. Stewart was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder; if convicted, he could face the death penalty. Stewart’s defense team successfully argued that since he was under the influence of Ambien, a sleep aid, at the time of the shooting, he was not in control of his actions.
In March of 2011, Lindsey Schweigert took one Ambien before getting into bed at 6pm. Hours later, she woke up in custody with no idea how she’d gotten there. In the following weeks, Schweigert pieced together the events of that night. She’d gotten out of bed, drawn a bath, and left the house with her dog. She started driving to a local restaurant but crashed into another car soon after leaving her house. Police described her as swaying and glassy-eyed. She failed a sobriety test and was charged with DWI and running a stoplight.
In April of 2009, Julie Ann Bronson a 45 year old flight attendant from Texas, took a couple of Ambien to help her sleep. She had been drinking wine earlier in the day, and went to bed early. She awoke the following morning in jail, still in her pajamas, barefoot and terrified. When she was told that she had run over three people, including an 18-month-old girl who suffered severe brain damage as a result of the wreck, she was horrified.
Ambien, a member of the class of medications known as hypnotics, was approved by the FDA in 1992. It was designed for short term use to combat insomnia and was a welcome change from the prevailing sleep aid at the time, Halcion, which had been implicated in psychosis, suicide, and addiction and had been banned in half a dozen countries. Ambien works by activating the neurotransmitter GABA and binding it to the GABA receptors in the same location as the benzodiazepines such as Xanax and Valium. The extra GABA activity triggered by the drug inhibits the neuron activity that is associated with insomnia. In other words, it slows down the brain.
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Ambien’s French manufacturer, made $2 billion in sales at its peak. In 2007 the generic version of Ambien was released, Zolpidem, and at less than $2 per pill, it still remains one of the most prescribed drugs in America, outselling popular painkillers like Percocet and prescription strength ibuprofen.
Although the Ambien prescribing information warned, in small print, that medications in the hypnotic class had occasional side effects including sleep walking, “abnormal thinking,” and “strange behavior,” these behaviors were listed as extremely rare, and any anecdotal evidence of “sleep driving,” “sleep eating,” or “sleep shopping”—all behaviors now associated with Ambien blackouts—were characterized as unusual quirks, or attributed to mixing the medication with alcohol. It wasn’t until Patrick Kennedy’s 2006 middle-of-the-night car accident and subsequent explanation to arriving officers that he was running late for a vote that the bizarre side effects of Ambien began to receive national attention. Kennedy claimed that he had taken the sleep aid and had no recollection of the events that night.
In addition to giving consumers extra information so they could take the medication more carefully, the warning labels also gave legitimacy to the Ambien Zombie defense. Still, many judges and prosecutors find the notion of sleep-driving inherently implausible despite FDA recognition that it can, and does, happen. The legal dockets are filled with such cases.
This would also make it seem that DOJ could be complicit in these "Accidents"
Click the title to read the original article “While You Were Sleeping”
https://www.pedagogyeducation.com/Infusion-Campus/Student-Union/Campus-News/News.aspx?news=194