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FDA Requests Label Change for All Sleep Disorder Drugs; Risks Include “Sleepdriving” and Dangerous Allergic Reactions


The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned drug makers and consumers that all sleeping pills, including the best-selling AmbienTM and LunestaTM, may sometimes cause a strange but dangerous side effect – sleepdriving.
Sleepdriving is like sleepwalking but is defined as driving while not fully awake after ingestion of a sedative-hypnotic product, with no memory of [...]

FBI Files Reveal Chronic Back Pain Led Justice William H. Rehnquist to Drug Addiction


FBI files released though the Freedom of Information Act reveal that late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was addicted to the sleep-inducing drug PlacidylTM for more than a decade.
The FBI documents were prepared in 1986 during a routine background investigation when Rehnquist was nominated for Chief Justice, years after his problems with the drug ended. [...]