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Join Date: Aug 2006
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FDA requests Warning For Sleep Drugs!
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01587.html
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FDA Requests Label Change for All Sleep Disorder Drug Products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested that all manufacturers of sedative-hypnotic drug products, a class of drugs used to induce and/or maintain sleep, strengthen their product labeling to include stronger language concerning potential risks. These risks include severe allergic reactions and complex sleep-related behaviors, which may include sleep-driving. Sleep driving is defined as driving while not fully awake after ingestion of a sedative-hypnotic product, with no memory of the event................................
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