Re: Ambien Addiction - Help

>Basically she cant go to sleep unless she takes an Ambien, and it works
>for a few hours only...then she still has stomach/head pain, so she
>wants to sleep more...but then she has to take another ambien...

I have been in this situation with Ambien (which I have taken for
years at a time) and my sleep doc cautioned me against taking more
than prescribed, not because it would cause addiction, but because it
would speed the buildup of a tolerance that rendered the drug
ineffective.

Dick Evans