Health officials have alerted doctors to risks associated with the popular insomnia pill Stilnox after reports of drugged people eating uncontrollably while asleep. In one report lodged with the federal government’s drug reaction committee, a patient put on 23kg over seven months while taking the powerful medication.
“It was only when she was discovered eating in front of an open refrigerator while asleep that the problem was resolved,” the committee reported in its latest bulletin.
One woman reported waking up with a paintbrush in her hand after having painted the front door while asleep. The tales match another media report last year of a Sydney man who had taken two Stilnox tablets at home and later woke to find himself lying on a woman’s couch wearing a dress.
He may have been wearing the dress before taking the Stilnox.
