We’re Seeing a Whole New Direction For Colin’s Memoirs

Colin Powell, in late 2003:

“They’re a wonderful medication — not medication. How would you call it? They’re called Ambien, which is very good. You don’t use Ambien? Everybody here uses Ambien.”

And the New York Times, today:

Most of the people who use Ambien say the drug puts them to sleep, and they wake up without incident. But several doctors and a number of patients say that sleep-eating is one of a variety of unusual reactions to the drug.

The reactions range from fairly benign sleepwalking episodes to hallucinations, violent outbursts and, most troubling of all, driving while asleep, a subject explored in an article last week in The New York Times. The Food and Drug Administration has said in response to a Times reporter’s query that it would monitor the drug’s safety record.

From sleep-eating and sleep-driving it’s surely not too far of a leap to sleep-delivering-of-testimony-to-the-UN Security Council, right?

Colin Powell Gushes About His Favorite Drug [TMW]
Study Links Ambien Use to Unconscious Food Forays [NYT]

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