The Wall Street Journal reports on a World Health Organization announcement about problems with the new generation of sleeping pills - a market that grew by 10% last year.
Among the oddities reported by the Journal:
• people eat, walk, make phone calls or get behind the wheel while still asleep after taking the drugs;
• some people have cut themselves with knives, consumed inedibles like buttered cigarettes and woken up gasping for air with their mouths full of peanut butter, a particular sleep-eating favorite.
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