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Article: Ambien users sound alarm over sleepwalking risks.
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- Trial
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Recent media reports have described bizarre episodes involving people who have taken Ambien--a popular prescription sleep aid--and awoken to find evidence that they ate a meal or took a drive around the neighborhood while slumbering. Some of these people have injured themselves in this somnambulant state. And they're starting to seek legal remedies.
"I know people who've taken Ambien and reported sleepwalking that they have no memory of," said Roman Silberfeld, a plaintiff attorney in Los Angeles who handles pharmaceutical litigation. "If the drug is capable of causing that sort of event, who's to say it isn't capable of causing others?"
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