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Case ID: 4696 | Drugs / Medical | 03/13/2006
Recent reports confirm that in 2005 about 26.5 million prescriptions of Ambien were filled and the manufacturer made some $2.2 billion in sales for a drug they advertise that will put users to sleep, yet some Ambien users nationwide experience bizarre side effects including sleep walking, sleep eating and memory loss. Scientific research confirms that Ambien is a powerful hypnotic that can reel people into sleep walking and sleep eating instead of a good nights sleep.
A New York City attorney filed a class action complaint in the Southern District of New York on March 6, 2006, against sanofi-aventis Group, the manufacturer of widely prescribed Ambien. Before filing the case, the lawyer interviewed Ambien users nationwide and an expert pharmacologist. All confirmed the dangerous side effects of Ambien. Four class representatives relate their experiences in the complaint of taking Ambien for good nights sleep and waking up only to find themselves in jail, driving cars while in a hypnotic state and binge eating at night where their spouses shoveled food from their mouths. The attorney explains, "The purpose of our lawsuit is to insure Ambien warns consumers and doctors about the adverse side effects of sleep walking and sleep eating because it is unfair to Ambien users to enter this hypnotic state then sleep walk and drive, putting themselves and others in danger. You don't want to be that other person crossing the road when an Ambien user is hypnotically driving towards you. The worst part of those side effects is that these people have absolutely no memory of what happened to them after they took Ambien." The class representatives range from a housewife in Florida, a Texas woman studying for her CPA, a Lab Technician in New York and a Lieutenant in the US Navy. The Florida housewife ate everything in sight, including raw eggs, uncooked canned vegetables and loaves of bread in one evening, and she did this multiple times. Her husband would find her in the morning with her mouth gorged with food and shovel it out of her mouth. The woman from Texas took Ambien one night and woke up on a cement jail floor the next day only to discover she was arrested for driving her car in a zombie like state and crashing into other parked vehicles. She now faces criminal charges. The Lieutenant had a stellar record with the Navy and a high classified position when she took her Ambien and was arrested the next day for shoplifting DVD's from a store. She also drove while on her "shopping spree". She has no memory of the incident and now faces court martial and the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in pension and other work related compensation for DVD's worth some $20--something that makes absolutely no sense. The New York Lab Technician was actually assaulted twice when she took her Ambien and entered into a hypnotic state where she opened her door for a stranger and another time she was found in her car in a hypnotic state. Her life has been devastated from the assault where she has horrific fragmented memories of it.
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