Zolpidem Tartrate, a popular prescription sleep medication commonly known by the brand name Ambien
On 12 January 2004 Ballesteros killed her husband Antonio González Barribino with Colme and with the sedatives Zolpidem and Bromazepam.
Middle-of-the-night insomnia is often treated with medication, although currently Intermezzo (zolpidem tartrate sublingual tablets) is the only Food and Drug Administration-approved medication specifically for treating MOTN awakening.
Z drugs emerged in the last years of the 1980s and early 1990s, with zopiclone (Imovane) approved by the NHS as early as 1989, quickly followed by Sanofi and zolpidem (Ambien).