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After taking ambien and its generic versions may still be too impaired to drive. it's especially true for women, who for some unknown reason do not clear the medicine as quickly. new studies show that after taking a regular ten milligram ambien or its generic, 15% of women will still be impaired eight hours later. and after taking the extended released version, a whopping 33% won't be alert enough for things like driving. so the fda says the new recommended dose for women, half of what it is now. but first check with your doctor. those relying on other sleeping medications shouldn't rest easy....

Kennedy crashed her car taking ambien hours earlier. is it ever safe to pop an ambien and drive? abc's lisa stark found out. >> reporter: you are looking at the first test of its kind ever done in the u.s. i'm in a driving simulator swerving all over the road nearly hitting a pedestrian, barely keeping my eyes open. i am not drunk. i'm testing another type of impairment, driving on the nation's most popular sleeping pill, ambien, and its generic version. there are cases all over the country those who pop the pill on the way home or try to drive too soon. perhaps the most terrifying of all -- t...

Can wake you up. diabetes. getting up to go to the bathroom can be an early warning sign. asthma. breathing difficulties can make rest hard to come by. even cancer. hormonal changes and unexplained pain can keep you up at night. sleeping pills are powerful. they act on the same part of the brain that valium does. quieting activity. and ambien and drugs like it have been linked to worrying side effects like sleep-eating and sleep-driving. >> when night after night for two, three, four months or whatever, the patient can't sleep, then it's time to go have another look. >> reporter: so if you can...

If you want more, it will cost you. >> here is the thing. alcohol is not a problem in the white house. the bigger deal is stuff like ambien. if something happens in the middle of the night and you are on ambien you will do something so horrible and so awful and perhaps perverse that it could start a world war. >> some of the side affects affects is sleep eating, sleep walking, sleep driving. >> sleep vetoing. you are vetoing stuff in your sleep. >> you might be sleep spending which is what a democrat might do, am i right? kind of predictable. >> i would love it. please, do heroin. do so much h...