"Some Sleeping Pill Users Range Far Beyond Bed"

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The article, "Some Sleeping Pill Users Range Far Beyond Bed" found in The New York Times talks about a new type of motorist hitting the roads intoxicated with the nation's best-selling prescription sleeping pill called Ambien. Ambien, in some state toxicology labs identify the pill as making the top ten drugs found in impaired drivers. Officials from Wisconsin identified the sleeping pill in the bloodstreams of 187 arrested drivers from 1999 to 2004. Data collected from random cases …

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…It gives the reader a sense that this drug may need more research. I believe this presentation was very well structured against the drug by having numerous case studies. Overall I believe that the cases presented had little weight on the effects the drug causes. Out of 26 plus million users, only a few hundred have seen the side effects and out of those users, a majority of them went against warnings and used alcohol simultaneously.