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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration called on companies that make drugs that put you to sleep or keep you there to strengthen their label warnings.
The FDA said the risks from these so-called sedative-hypnotic drug products include severe allergic reactions and sleep-related behaviors, which may include sleep-driving.
Sleep-driving is defined as driving while not fully awake after taking one of the products, with no memory of the event.
Thirteen medications -- Ambien, Butisol sodium, Carbrital, Dalmane, Doral, Halcion, Lunesta, Placidyl, Prosom, Restoril, Rozerem, Seconal and Sonata -- are the focus of the revised labeling.