Do you think that side effects such as: Hostility, Aggressiveness, Hallucinations, Panic attacks and suicidal thoughts and behavior are “benign effects” ? Really?
Read any drug monograph and you’ll scare yourself silly. Most are infrequent to rare and also have causes other than the drug in question, typically something else going on or a pre-existing condition, but during testing it is reported so it goes on the drug profile. Practitioners prescribe Tranzadone when they want to take a very conservative approach. This guy was likely suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and they should have brought the chemical hammer down on him, not this.
my wife has used it for a long time for sleep problems knocks her out for 6-7 hrs every night
I have been on the drug for years and I have had none of those. It could be the type of personality a person has. I am very easy going.