TheBanyanTree: Honey, How'd You Get Those Burns / That Case of Ptomaine?

[B Drummond]

As some of you know a wildly popular (thanks to millions spend on commercials 
and advertising in major media) sleeping aid has been in the news lately. 
It's name is Ambien.

Remember, don't go to bed hungry if you're taking this stuff.  You just might 
sleepwalk right into the kitchen and clean out the fridge and whip a meatloaf 
while you're at it, all the while snoring away.

Think about it.  What kind of judgment is one sleepwalker going to exercise 
when he or she is driven by the effects of a sleeping pill to satiate one's 
hunger, even to the point of cooking the stuff, all while sound asleep. 

Besides, if said poor soul's fridge is like most people's fridges, some of 
that stuff in there shouldn't be touched with a ten foot pole, let alone 
eaten!

Wonder if the side effects warning on the bottle lists "may cause recipient to 
raid the fridge, fry up the bacon and chug-a-lug boiling hot coffee by the 
quarts while stone cold asleep under its effects".  Or, "Do not eat, cook or 
walk while asleep while taking Ambien".

Yeah, we knew that some drugs can cause weight gain, but we weren't expecting 
it to be due to cooking and eating while sound asleep.

What's gonna' happen to poor Ambien users that prefer to sleep in the nude and 
love fried bacon?

Ooooooh, that hurts just thinking about it!




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