Article: Strange sleep-time behaviors prompt new warning labels: Popular drugs can cause people to drive, eat, have sex while asleep.

Byline: Jonathan D. Rockoff

Mar. 15--WASHINGTON -- Under pressure from the federal government, drug makers are revising the labels on Ambien, Lunesta and other popular sleep aids to warn that the pills may result in driving, eating and even having sex while sleeping, health officials said yesterday.

The manufacturers of the 13 popular medications are also preparing information bulletins for users that will highlight the possibility of bizarre nighttime side effects. The Food and Drug Administration requested the action to discourage patients from taking higher than recommended doses or combining use with alcohol consumption. Dr. Russell Katz, director of the ...

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