Extended Release Medications

I've been reading the library to see if anyone had any success taking Ambien CR, but couldn't find anything. I told my doctor my concern about taking extended release medications, but she said that the absorbtion of most medications happens in the gastrointestinal tract and not the stomach and that some time released medicines (including Ambien CR) are aborbed by the gi tract and then later released in the blood. Yeah, this makes sense to me, but I'm no doctor. She said unless I read some type of studies, I shouldn't believe those "rumours." So are there any studies out there? I think she is getting annoyed with me saying I can't take this and I can't take that.

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