Ambien Addiction

Expert Ambien Addiction Treatment Center

At Avalon Malibu, we understand the unique complexity of Ambien addiction. Our approach gently restores balance to your nervous system, supports healthy sleep cycles, and helps you uncover the stressors, anxiety patterns, or pain that led to overuse in the first place. You deserve a calm, medically supported environment where healing is handled with precision, safety, and compassion.

Ambien dependence looks different from other addictions. It often affects high-achieving, stressed, or exhausted individuals who simply needed sleep, until the medication became the only way to function.

Avalon Malibu has helped over 1,700 individuals and families, guided by steady leadership for more than a decade. Avalon Malibu’s leadership hasn’t changed with the seasons, it’s steady, present, and personally involved. This is rare in the treatment world. Your care is never outsourced or diluted. Every detail is overseen daily by the people who built this program with intention, integrity, and heart.

If you’re seeking a private, compassionate environment that restores your mind, body, and spirit, call 888-958-7511 today and take the first step toward healing and renewal at Avalon Malibu.

Why Families Trust Us

Consistency, safety and presence

Over 77% of clients referred by professionals & alumni
6:1 staff-to-client ratio for deep individualized attention
CEO and Clinical Director work personally with every client
Family coaching and support from day one

Families come to Avalon because they feel safe here; not only in the environment, but in the consistency of the people guiding their loved one’s recovery.

You deserve rest. You deserve safety. You deserve a place that sees the whole you. Call Avalon Malibu confidentially at 888-958-7511 today.

Let us help you restore your sleep, your balance, and your life.

What We Provide

Integrated, individualized care in a private therapeutic environment

A calm, oceanfront sanctuary
24/7 Nursing
50+ individual session hours per month
Detox & stabilization
Full psychiatric testing & medication management
A private estate with luxury amenities
Transfer support
Concierge services
Seamless collaboration with outside providers

At Avalon, you will not receive a “standard” plan — you will receive your plan.

Our team carefully examines your sleep patterns, daily stressors, mental health history, trauma background, and medical needs to create a treatment approach that is gentle, empowering, and sustainable.

We help restore natural sleep rhythms through behavioral therapy, holistic sleep support, and slow, medically guided tapering when needed. Clients often say they finally sleep deeply for the first time in years, without fear of dependence.

What Is Ambien?

Ambien is a popularly prescribed drug for sleep disorders. It is highly addictive. Ambien is also known as zolpidem, a sedative that has hypnotic properties. Ambien affects the chemicals in the brain that may become unbalanced, therefore causing sleep problems.

Ambien comes in two forms one has an immediate release tablet that helps people fall asleep quickly. The extended release has a layer that helps people stay asleep. The recommended doses of Ambien in men and women differ significantly, and this drug is not approved for use in children. The misuse of Ambien based on this information can result in dangerous side effects.

Ambien is a hypnotic drug that can impair a person’s thinking and reactions. The drug tends to last in the body for long hours and people who use it may feel sluggish upon waking the next day. Ambien is a dangerous drug and should never be used when engaging in activities such as driving, eating, or making phone calls. When this occurs, users regularly have no memory of the activity.

Using Ambien for extended periods of time and at high doses can cause withdrawal symptoms, that can last for a few weeks. This extension of withdrawal from Ambien depends on the degree of use.

Some Negative Effects of Ambien use are:

Nausea and vomiting
Delusions or hallucinations
Euphoria
Amnesia or short-term memory loss
Coordination problems
Fatigue

Long-Term Withdrawal Symptoms of Ambien Include:

Agitation and irritability
Insomnia
Cravings
Nervousness
Delirium
Convulsions or seizures

Ambien and Addiction

An Ambien addiction is dangerous and there are signs to take into consideration when someone is abusing Ambien and has formed an addiction.

The Villa House at Avalon Malibu is a place to discover the way to a more fulfilling, addiction-free life. Our objectives include improving retention in treatment, reducing psychiatric crisis and symptoms, improving coping skills, and reducing drug-related behaviors. We seek to strengthen healthy behaviors and help each person put into practice holistic alternative methods to Ambien addiction.

If you have a persistent desire to use Ambien and have been unsuccessful in your efforts to stop, then Avalon Malibu is your answer for recovery and treatment.

Call 1-888-958-7511

Some of these signs are:

Use of Ambien results in failure to fulfill work, school or home obligations
Use of Ambien in physically hazardous situations such as driving or operating machinery
Use of Ambien resulting in legal problems such as drug-related arrests
Continued Ambien use despite negative social or interpersonal consequences