Astral Codex Ten

Ambien

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Ambien

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Ambien is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 29, 2023 and June 08, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Controlled substances are drugs like Adderall, Ritalin, Xanax, or Ambien”; “That drug would be more than four times stronger than Ambien!“. It most often appears alongside Adderall, ACX survey, Bay Area.

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  • Category: Brands
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: March 29, 2023
  • Last seen: June 08, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

The Government Is Making Telemedicine Hard And Inconvenient Again
March 29, 2023 · Original source
The first fruit of their labor is DEA-407, which makes it hard for telemedicine doctors to prescribe controlled substances. Controlled substances are drugs like Adderall, Ritalin, Xanax, or Ambien that the government has declared to be potentially addictive. The new rules say that telemedicine doctors can no longer prescribe these (or, in some cases, can prescribe them one time in an emergency).
Inline links: DEA-407
Attempts To Put Statistics In Context, Put Into Context
June 08, 2023 · Original source
Consider a claim that the difference between treatment and control groups was “only as big, in terms of effect size, as the average height difference between men and women - just a couple of inches” (I think I saw someone say this once, but I’ve lost the reference thoroughly enough that I’m presenting it as a hypothetical). That drug would be more than four times stronger than Ambien!