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TEENS 'ZOMBIE' PILL FAD: ABUSING AMBIEN (Kennedy drug used as party-sex enhancer)
NY POST ^ | 5/14/06 | SUSANNAH CAHALAN and SUSAN EDELMAN

Posted on 05/14/2006 9:48:55 AM PDT by Liz

A growing number of city high-school and college kids are popping Ambien - the drug Rep. Patrick Kennedy blamed, in part, on his car crash - not to sleep, but to party.

The insomnia medication, known as "zombie pills," "tic-tacs" and "A-minus," has become popular at house parties and nightclubs....illegally sold by Internet drugstores, peddled outside Big Apple nightclubs and even bartered on Craigslist.

One desperate user offered his X-rated DVDs. "You give me Ambien, I'll give you porn," he wrote. At the street price of $5 a pill, young people are gobbling Ambien for relaxation, euphoria and hallucinations.

Partyers also take Ambien with booze, pot and other pills - a dangerous combination, doctors say - to get a stronger high.

The "zombie" fad worries doctors. "I have patients who abuse Ambien to get a buzz," said Dr. Richard Frances, a NYU psychiatry professor......

The sleeping pill is the target of a growing class-action lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that claims the pills caused bizarre "zombie-like" behavior - including reckless driving and binge eating.

Kennedy blamed Ambien as a factor in his May 5 crash in D.C.

.......... said lawyer Susan Chana Lask, who represents 500 in the suit. "Many burn their hands on the stove, eat weird things - one lady made a sandwich with ice cream, syrup and pretzels - and have wild sex with their spouses or other people."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: ambien; warondrugs; wod; wodlist
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1 posted on 05/14/2006 9:48:59 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
" one lady made a sandwich with ice cream, syrup and pretzels"

Hmmm . . .

2 posted on 05/14/2006 9:51:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Liz

Oh please, every generation has their "it" pill. Unfortunately, mine was Qualudes. Be thankful their only taking Ambien.


3 posted on 05/14/2006 9:52:43 AM PDT by Hildy ("Whenever someone smiles at me all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life." - Dwight Schrute)
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To: BenLurkin
" one lady made a sandwich with ice cream, syrup and pretzels"


4 posted on 05/14/2006 9:53:13 AM PDT by JRios1968 (In memoriam...)
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To: Hildy

The story is significant not b/c its about pills per se, but b/c it concerns a pill Cong Kennedy took, then used as an excuse to explain his bad behavior.


5 posted on 05/14/2006 9:57:14 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: Hildy

"Unfortunately, mine was Qualudes."

Rorer 300's. The pill that zombied an entire generation.

I also have the t-shirt.


6 posted on 05/14/2006 9:59:17 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats = The Culture of Treason)
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To: Liz

Everyone knows that's a bogus story...he was drinking, period.


7 posted on 05/14/2006 10:00:58 AM PDT by Hildy ("Whenever someone smiles at me all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life." - Dwight Schrute)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

You got that right.


8 posted on 05/14/2006 10:01:22 AM PDT by Hildy ("Whenever someone smiles at me all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life." - Dwight Schrute)
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To: Liz

9 posted on 05/14/2006 10:02:09 AM PDT by Wiggins
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To: Liz

10 posted on 05/14/2006 10:06:29 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
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To: Liz
"You give me Ambien, I'll give you porn,"

LOL.

11 posted on 05/14/2006 10:09:06 AM PDT by SIDENET (Gonna shake it, gonna break it, let's forget it better still)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
"Unfortunately, mine was Quaaludes."

Rorer 300's. The pill that zombied an entire generation.


That would be Rorer and Lemmon 714's... LOL

Not that I would know anything about that. (Whistling Innocently)

12 posted on 05/14/2006 10:09:58 AM PDT by Despot of the Delta ("Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience")
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To: Liz
and have wild sex with their spouses or other people

From a SLEEPING PILL? What am I missing here? I thought Ambien was a sleeping pill; why are people eating ice cream sandwichs and having wild sex after taking a sleeping pill? Not that I think for a moment Kennedy was anything but drunk.

13 posted on 05/14/2006 10:11:09 AM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Hildy
Unfortunately, mine was Qualudes.

Ludes made for calm companions. There are worse things, eh?

14 posted on 05/14/2006 10:13:11 AM PDT by Glenn (There is a looming Tupperware shortage. Plan appropriately.)
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To: Liz

There's no proof Patrick Kennedy had Ambien in his system. However they are witnesses that Kennedy was knocking back a whole bunch of alcohol earlier in the evening.


15 posted on 05/14/2006 10:16:01 AM PDT by D-Chivas
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To: Wiggins; Fedora

Thanks---love it. Wonder if it's on DVD? Did Sheldon Leonard play the zombie? LOL.

16 posted on 05/14/2006 10:18:18 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: Liz

" one lady made a sandwich with ice cream, syrup and pretzels"

This drug sounds as harmful as marijuana!


17 posted on 05/14/2006 10:18:34 AM PDT by The Worthless Miracle ("Better put some ice on that")
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To: Liz
said lawyer Susan Chana Lask, who represents 500 in the suit. "Many burn their hands on the stove, eat weird things - one lady made a sandwich with ice cream, syrup and pretzels - and have wild sex with their spouses or other people."

"My clients abused prescription drugs and had adverse side effects. I demand restitution of $figurewithlotsofzeros and a wahmbulance."
18 posted on 05/14/2006 10:19:00 AM PDT by English Nationalist
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To: D-Chivas

.....and nobody saw the glassine envelopes under the driver's seat, and the little gold straw with a powder residue on the passenger seat...?


19 posted on 05/14/2006 10:21:55 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: English Nationalist

In the language of the law----$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


20 posted on 05/14/2006 10:23:04 AM PDT by Liz (We have room for but one flag, the American flag." —Theodore Roosevelt)
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