Tagged: Ambien

Ambien is being overprescribed

Once a drug is on the market, we are all supposed to be interested in something else. We should just assume the drug has solved whatever the problem was. There’s no need to follow up by measuring how well the drug is actually performing. Except that’s the kind of thinking that delayed the recall of [...]

Ambien is a world class sleeping pill

As a nation, it seems we pop more pills than all the other developed countries. The people who count things release the number of prescriptions written each year, and painkillers and sleeping pills are always racing ahead of the field for that Number 1 spot. It’s strange we should find sleep a problem – that’s [...]