Thursday, March 15, 2007
U.S. Sedatives may make you drive your car or make phone calls whilst asleep
According to the Scientific American, popular sleep drugs such as Ambien and Lunesta can cause odd and potentially dangerous behaviors such as driving while asleep - so-called "sleep driving" -- without any recollection afterward.
Patients taking the drugs were also found to make phone calls, have sex, eat and cook while asleep.
Complete known list: Ambien/Ambien CR (Sanofi Aventis), Butisol Sodium (Medpointe Pharm HLC), Carbrital (Parke-Davis) , Dalmane (Valeant Pharm) , Doral , Halcion (Pharmacia & Upjohn) , Lunesta (Sepracor) , Placidyl (Abbott) , Prosom (Abbott) , Restoril (Tyco Healthcare) , Rozerem (Takeda) , Seconal (Lilly) , Sonata (King Pharmaceuticals) .
So if taking the above drugs, don't be too surprised if you wake up in another country, or indeed not at all.
Patients taking the drugs were also found to make phone calls, have sex, eat and cook while asleep.
Complete known list: Ambien/Ambien CR (Sanofi Aventis), Butisol Sodium (Medpointe Pharm HLC), Carbrital (Parke-Davis) , Dalmane (Valeant Pharm) , Doral , Halcion (Pharmacia & Upjohn) , Lunesta (Sepracor) , Placidyl (Abbott) , Prosom (Abbott) , Restoril (Tyco Healthcare) , Rozerem (Takeda) , Seconal (Lilly) , Sonata (King Pharmaceuticals) .
So if taking the above drugs, don't be too surprised if you wake up in another country, or indeed not at all.
# posted by uv : 11:49 AM
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