I was addicted to zopiclone for about 4 years, mixing it heavily with alcohol. i live in eastern europe, so the caca used to sell without a prescription everywhere like aspirin. i started taking it only because i liked the way it felt - like i was so confindent and it made me feel i could do anything. but then i just started losing control, acting crazy and inadequate and just freaking people out, especially when i started mixing with alcohol. i don't like alcohol by itself, i without the zopiclone i don't even enjoy it, but with the pills i would drink so much, and would completely black out afterwards. i've had some pretty scary things happen to me with those blackouts, and i'm kinda glad i don't remember in detail what was happening. anyway, i almost completely ruined my life with that crap. the first year it wasn't that bad, i could control myself and could remember what happened the next day. But after about a year and a half, i just totally lost myself, i just wasn't MYSELF.the stuff brings out the worst in you.after a year i was so tolerant i was taking up to 30 pills a day! i'm clean now for about a year, cause the stuff doesn't sell without a prescription anymore, and i don't know how to get one, i haven't tried. i didn't feel any withdrawl symptoms at all, which i thought was strange, just a bit depressed because i can't feel that confident about myself without the pills. but at least i don't act like an fool in front of people anymore. don't go back to that stuff, i don't know how damaging the stuff is to your body (it obviously can't be good), but it messes with your head, and people will forever see you as a psycho freak while you're on it.