http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/business/14sleep.web.html?ref=business
Prescription sleeping pills can cause unusual behavior like driving and eating while asleep, the Food and Drug Administration warned today.
The F.D.A. ordered the makers of Ambien, Lunesta and 11 other commonly used sleep medications to issue strong new label warnings about those risks, and to produce brochures about safe use of the drugs. Pharmacies would give the brochures to patients when prescriptions are dispensed.
The agency will also require label warnings to note the possibility of severe allergic reactions and facial swelling associated with the use of such sleep medications.
The agency had been reviewing the side effects of sleeping pills since last year, after some users of the widely prescribed drug Ambien complained that they sleepwalked and gorged themselves on food or were arrested while driving in their sleep.
Haha, man. I hope they make them put a disclaimer on the TV adds.
"Lunesta is non habbit forming, but may lead to you driving to Dairy Queen at midnight and ordering 15 Blizzards and eating them on the way home, then doing 'the moonwalk' on your kitchen table. Also, possibly dry mouth."