Study Links Ambien Use to Unconscious Food Forays - New York Times

Creepy. This sleeping pill may cause sleep-eating in susceptible people.

The drug’s users sometimes sleepwalk into their kitchens, claw through their refrigerators like animals and consume calories ranging into the thousands.

These people not only end up gaining weight because of their sleep-eating, some of them even cook in their sleep, turning ovens and stoves on while asleep—a definite fire hazard.

The reactions [to the drug] range from fairly benign sleepwalking episodes to hallucinations, violent outbursts and, most troubling of all, driving while asleep.