My girlfriend abuses Ambien CR for the lucid dreaming. She takes 4x the dose and uses her prescription up in a week, then doubles up on her Xanax for another week, then suffers insomnia for the next 2 weeks until she gets her Ambien CR scrip refilled. She gets extremely agitated, has written things in basically a different personality, and is extremely aggressive when on the drug.
She also suffers from sleep paralysis, which I have read can be made worse by taking Ambien CR. I have sen her get very upset when she comes out of a sleep paralysis episode, but she is so hooked on the lucid dreaming that she will not listen to my pleas to at least cut down to the prescribed dose and take it throughout the month.
I have no official capacity in her life, I am just a boyfriend – pretty much an ex because of this issue. But I think she needs rehab and she has a job that requires a security clearance. I fear she will do something to cause her clearance to be revoked because she gets wild on this stuff, and in the aftermath when she runs out.
