“I do not think anybody under this drug effects should be held accountable for their actions if they get in trouble.”
I agree with this comment! Once this drug gets in we are not responsible for what we do. The doctors prescribing this need to wear the responsibility – or the drug companies. It’s not that you know what you’re doing but feel like being silly or naughty or dangerous…the capacity to make the decisions is NOT THERE once the drug is taken. I’ts simply NOT THERE!! and neither is the recollection the following day.
–Becky
My husband of 34 years took his life after being on Ambien for sleep problems. He suffered from neuropathy from diebetes and the pain was so terrible he couldn’t sleep. He became depressed after being on the Ambien and at times if he didn’t go straight to bed he became as if he was drunk and didn’t know what was going on. The afternoon before he died he took 2 pills to help him sleep. He slept through the alarm to awaken him to get ready for work on Sunday night. I woke him up and asked him to please never take 2 pills again at a time. He said he didn’t realize he had done that. I told him I loved him and wnet to bed that night going to sleep holding his hand. The next morning I awoke to find him gone and some things in the house in dissaray. Sometime during the night he had gotten up and taken everything out of our storage shed in the back yard. He then took his car and was gone. After all the family searching and with the hellp of friends and even the police my husbands car was finally found later that afternoon on a bridge, still running. My husbands body was found a few hours later having washed up on the beach of the lake. My husband didn’t knowingly do this. He was looking forward to the birth of our granddaughter the next week, and the wedding of our daughter 3 months later. Because of this drug, I spent our 34th wedding anniversary at the funeral home receiving visitors the night before his funeral. Our grandchildren will grow up without knowing their Godly grandfather. Instead of having her father excort her down the isle at her wedding, my daughter was excorted by her two brothers. I lost the love of my life. My husband referred to us as the King and Queen of happiness. We had planned to grow old together. Now all of that is gone because of Ambien. Something needs to b done to get this drug off the market. What can we do?