Jezebel: Ambien

Stressed Out Moms Are Hitting The Ambien Bottle Hard

Cassie Murdoch — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:05:00 EST

Sometimes it seems like moms cannot catch a break. They're already on duty 24 hours a day, but now it turns out that even when everyone else in the house is fast asleep, they're not getting much rest. Insomnia, the New York times reports, is causing women across the country, but especially moms, to turn to sleeping pills in pretty big numbers. More »

Madonna May Judge Idol; Hasselhoff Hospitalized; Tila Snorts Ambien

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:00:00 EDT

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It would be fairly epic if Madonna became a judge on American Idol.

Having trouble sleeping? It might kill you,...

Jessica G. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:45:00 EDT

Having trouble sleeping? It might kill you, says a new study from Duke University Medical Center. Poor sleep for women — in this study, "poor sleep" is defined as taking 30+ minutes to fall asleep or waking up frequently in the middle of the night — means a high "cardiac risk profile" researchers said. It sounds like a vicious cycle: "For women, poor sleep is strongly associated with high levels of psychological distress and greater feelings of hostility, depression and anger. They had higher levels of all the biomarkers tests — higher levels of C-reactive protein and interleukin-6, measures of inflammation that have been associated with increased risk of heart disease and higher levels of insulin." You're depressed so you can't sleep, and not sleeping makes you sick, and that sickness probably only makes you more depressed. No wonder Ambien is so popular! [UPI] More »

Counting Sheep Is For Suckers

Moe — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:30:52 EDT

The pharmaceutical industry works like the women's magazine industry: attractive people telling you what's wrong with you and how they can fix it in a super underminer-y way so as to send you shame-spiraling toward a lifelong cycle of dependence. Okay, so: Ambien. Why ever would we need it? We consulted Pillhead, who said: "You only think you don't need them because you drink yourself to sleep every night." But only because of the Adderall! "And why do you think my doctor wrote both prescriptions at the same time?" she replied. "Because he's a pawn of the pharmaceutical industry's conspiracy to invent new First World diseases because there's no money in curing the old Third World ones!" we responded, reflexively. And then we felt a sharp pang in our liver. (Whoever said you can't feel your liver wasn't an alcoholic.) After the jump, Pillhead finds eternal love with Ambien after a brief dalliance with Lunesta leaves a bad taste in her mouth.