FDA: Sleeping Pills Can Cause "Sleep-Driving"

FDA: Sleeping Pills Can Cause "Sleep-Driving"

All prescription sleeping pills may sometimes cause sleep-driving, federal health officials warned Wednesday, almost a year after the bizarre side effect first made headlines when Rep. Patrick Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) crashed his car after taking Ambien.

It's a more complicated version of sleepwalking, but behind the wheel: getting up in the middle of the night and going for a drive -- with no memory of doing so.

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