Bizarre & Dangerous Behaviors Reported Nationwide Related to Ambien use. It Doesn't Give Some Consumers a Good Night's Sleep But Causes Them to Enter into a Hypnotic State & Drive Cars & Binge Eat Without Any Memory

New York, NY (PRWEB) March 10, 2006 -- The New York Times recently reported that last year some 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 you asleep, BUT some Ambien users nationwide experience bizarre side effects of sleep walking, sleep eating and memory loss that landed them in Jail, they lost their jobs or they were seriously injured, without any memory of what happened to them. 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.
         
New York City Attorney Susan Chana Lask filed a class action complaint in the Southern District of New York on March 6, 2006, Case No. 06CIV1762. Ms. Lask interviewed people 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. Attorney Susan Chana Lask 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 filed complaint is at http://www.appellate-brief.com/ambien.html.

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.
         
A PRESS CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2006 at 10 A.M. at the Southern District of New York Courthouse steps at Centre Street, New York City.

Contact:
Susan Chana Lask, Esq.
212-358-5762
917-533-7880

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