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Warning labels on drugs, both prescription and nonprescription, can save your life.

Then again, perhaps they`ll simply puzzle you.

A slightly insomniac friend recently got a prescription filled for 30-milligram doses of Dalmane, a mild sleeping pill. The pharmacy stuck two warning stickers on the plastic vial.

One is surely important: ”Do not drink alcoholic beverages when taking this medicine.”

The other is just plain perplexing, considering the pills` purpose:

”May cause drowsiness.”

May?