Laura Delano
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first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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for six to eight weeks prior to getting approved.
So if you stay on them longer than that, we don't really have much evidence base for what could happen here.
And also just so you know, if you try to get off them one day, you might have a really hard time.
The average length of a trial is about six to eight weeks that tests the safety and efficacy.
That's what the FDA reviews are very short term trials, sometimes a week long.
One of the Ambien trials that the drug was approved on the basis of was one night.
One night for Ambien?
And they used a normal population who didn't even have sleep problems.
And the premise was if they're in a sleep lab, they'll have disturbed sleep.
And they followed them for one night.
That was one of the three trials, three total trials.
trials that the FDA based its decision to approve Ambien on.
Most people are on them for years.
A survey, I think, is something like 70% of people are like five or more years.
If I'm remembering correctly, but it's years and I have yet to meet a person who has been on these medications for years, who was told they were taking a drug that was only ever looked at over a matter of weeks.
I have no one I've ever met knew that up front.
I certainly didn't.
The other thing, too, that has never been studied ever is polypharmacy, taking multiple psych meds at the same time.
I assumed when I was prescribed five medications by one prescriber, not multiple, that there must be an evidence base for this.
Otherwise, they wouldn't do it.
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