Melatonin, a sleep aid, is a surprising treatment for food waste

Re:Melatonin, a sleep aid, is a surprising treatment for foo... by kelnos on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:36PM (#37006219)

Interesting; I didn't realize Ambien was addictive. It was prescribed to me years ago after laser eye surgery (but only a week or so of pills). It was great for the first two or three days (I generally do have trouble sleeping and staying asleep, and Ambien knocked me right out and kept me that way for a solid 8 hours), but then I guess I developed a tolerance and it stopped being effective.

I wonder if that's why people get addicted? Maybe the normal dose is fine, but many some start developing a tolerance, and then self-raise their dosage in order to get it to work again, but a higher dose triggers addiction?

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Re:Melatonin, a sleep aid, is a surprising treatment for foo... by swozey on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:03PM (#37006461)

I'm not sure about its actual addictive power but I do know that a sad amount of people like to get ambien drunk.

> According to a report by the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), in 2010, about 57% of ER visits and hospitalizations caused by taking too much Ambien also involved other drugs. Ambien combined with alcohol accounted for 14% of those visits, or 2,851 people total. Combining alcohol and Ambien increased the person’s likelihood of requiring transfer to an intensive care unit (ICU) due to overdose.6

That could be because insomnia and alcohol dependence often go hand in hand. Additionally, alcohol works on the same GABA receptors in the brain as Ambien, increasing the effects of both Ambien and alcohol. Reported rates of sleep problems among people with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/30/615421269...

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/alcoholism-treatment/mi...

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