How much Ambien is too much?
My girlfriend takes Ambien just about every night to help her get to sleep. Maybe once every week or two she can manage to skip a night. She takes between anywhere between 3 to 10 mg before she goes to bed each night. If she gets at all stressed out, then she takes it for sure and probably at the higher dose (10mg) (and she does get stressed out quite easily in my opinion.) Often she can sleep well past the time the drug wears off (I think it wears off after about 4-5 hours, and sometimes (like on weekends) she can sleep 8-10 hours.) She’s been on Ambien for about 2 years now. She has talked about getting off of it, but has done little more than reduce the dosage on occassional nights and I really don’t see her getting off it given her current lifestyle (full time job, etc.) So I’m just wondering how seriously she is addicted to Ambien and how seriously her current addition should be taken. What sorts of short term and long term risks she is exposing herself to, and with what urgency,
