This Ambien Stuff Is A Trip (To Jail) For One Illinois Man

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There ain't no party like an Ambien party,
'cause an Ambien party just don't stop.

Ambien is back in the news because of the zany antics people on the pill tend to get themselves into. Just last week in Mascoutah, Illinois William Restoff popped the sleeping pill while on his way home from work and woke up in a jail cell. The Belleville News Democrat is reporting

A Mascoutah businessman with no prior criminal record said he took a sleeping pill and woke up in a police holding cell with dog bite wounds, facing a felony charge.

Restoff was charged last week with felony criminal trespassing and misdemeanor resisting a peace officer.

Here we all were thinking that Ambien is supposed to give you a peaceful night's rest when really it's just a full out college party complete with unconsciousness and run-ins with the law.

In response to this latest revelation, the makers of Ambien are repackaging their drug in a younger, hipper plastic vial, and they are hammering out the details for distribution agreements with several college fraternities and nightclubs at Spring Break destinations throughout the world.