Vicissitudes and Victories

If Only Everyone had Such a Good Excuse

Study Links Ambien Use to Unconscious Food Forays
By STEPHANIE SAUL
Published: March 14, 2006

The sleeping pill Ambien seems to unlock a primitive desire to eat in some patients, according to emerging medical case studies that describe how the drug's users sometimes sleepwalk into their kitchens, claw through their refrigerators like animals and consume calories ranging into the thousands.


The next morning, the night eaters remember nothing about their foraging. But they wake up to find telltale clues: mouthfuls of peanut butter, Tostitos in their beds, kitchen counters overflowing with flour, missing food, and even lighted ovens and stoves. Some are so embarrassed, they delay telling anyone, even as they gain weight.

It's amazing sometimes what you find in The New York Times. Check out the rest of this crazy article at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/health/14sleep.html?incamp=article_popular_2

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