Scary shit.
Ambien ? I think I'd rather endure insomnia.
Colin Powell: "Yes. Well, I wouldn't call them that. They're a wonderful medication -- not medication. How would you call it? They're called Ambien, which is very good. You don't use Ambien? Everybody here uses Ambien."
-- Nov. 5, 2003 interview with former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
"Everybody here uses Ambien," former Secretary of State Colin Powell said in a Nov. 5, 2003 interview. Well, maybe not everybody in America uses Ambien, but the figures are astoundingly high: In 2005, 26.5 million prescriptions for Ambien were written in the United States alone, totaling $2.2 billion in sales. Contrary to Powell's 2003 statement, Ambien is a medication -- one with very serious, impairing and sometimes hallucinogenic side effects.
If 'everyone here' was using Ambien at that time of the decade, that could explain a bit better, that administrations thought processes towards starting the current debacle we're still paying for.