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Women and the Research Gap: How gender disparities in research are impacting women's health

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How Do You Know if You're Overdosing on Ambien?

There were no women included in the clinical trials for the drug ambien, which is a sedative commonly prescribed for insomnia and trouble sleeping. Women metabolize it so differently that receiving a male dose is a massive overdose. An ambian overdose can cause you to have these wild dreams that you then act out, sort of like a very weird version of sleep walking. I really high lights why it's lazy and unacceptable, and, frankly, should be illegal, to put drugs on the market and say that they work on all people.

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