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Ambien
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Etymology
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Noun
Trade name of zolpidem, a medication most widely known as a treatment for insomnia.
en 2009 Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 Empire State of Mind The city never sleeps / Better slip you an Ambien
en 2010 Patricia Morrisroe Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia 119 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.
en 2011 Jonathan Handel Hollywood on Strike!: An Industry at War in the Internet Age 389 Silicon Valley is not going to suddenly take an Ambien and stop innovating.
en-US Dwight Garner A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook The New York Times 2013-06-04 https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/books/taipei-by-tao-lin.html 0362-4331 They ingest Ambien, Seroquel, LSD, Adderall, Oxycodone, cocaine, Flexeril, Percocet, psilocybin mushrooms and codeine. https://web.archive.org/web/20250918195521/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/books/taipei-by-tao-lin.html 18 September 2025
Madison Malone Kircher ‘Things You Did on Ambien’ Is Peak Reddit https://web.archive.org/web/20181020113710/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/02/things-you-did-on-ambien-is-reddits-best-subreddit.html 22 February 2017 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.
en-US Christine Hauser Roseanne Barr’s Ambien Defense Is Disputed: ‘Racism Is Not a Known Side Effect’ The New York Times 2018-05-30 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/business/ambien-roseanne.html 0362-4331 Roseanne Barr said she was “Ambien tweeting” when she wrote racist remarks on Twitter that compared a black former Obama administration official to an ape, a comment that led ABC to cancel her television show. But on Wednesday the makers of Ambien, the sleep aid, were having none of it. “People of all races, religions and nationalities work at Sanofi every day to improve the lives of people around the world,” the company, Sanofi U.S., said on Twitter. “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.” https://web.archive.org/web/20250720140525/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/business/ambien-roseanne.html 20 July 2025
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