Ambien

plural Ambiens

1. Trade name of zolpidem, a medication most widely known as a treatment for insomnia.

   The city never sleeps / Better slip you an Ambien

   2009, “Empire State of Mind”, in The Blueprint 3, performed by Jay-Z

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   But Eckleburg is powerless against her, so I take an Ambien, and then, at 2 AM, the New York City Department of Transportation decides it's the perfect time to rip up the street.

   2010, Patricia Morrisroe, Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia, page 119

   Silicon Valley is not going to suddenly take an Ambien and stop innovating.

   2011, Jonathan Handel, Hollywood on Strike!: An Industry at War in the Internet Age, page 389

   They ingest Ambien, Seroquel, LSD, Adderall, Oxycodone, cocaine, Flexeril, Percocet, psilocybin mushrooms and codeine.

   2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   This week’s find: a subreddit devoted to all the wonderfully deranged things people have done while under the influence of Ambien sleeping pills, or while experiencing a visit from the Ambien walrus, as redditors are known to call it.

   2017 February 22, Madison Malone Kircher, “‘Things You Did on Ambien’ Is Peak Reddit”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2018

   Roseanne Barr said she was “Ambien tweeting” when she wrote racist remarks on Twitter […]. But on Wednesday the makers of Ambien, the sleep aid, were having none of it.[…] “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”

   2018 May 30, Christine Hauser, “Roseanne Barr’s Ambien Defense Is Disputed: ‘Racism Is Not a Known Side Effect’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN