More than 100 people who claim they developed gambling and pornography habits after taking drugs used to treat tremors caused by Parkinson’s disease have filed a class-action lawsuitin Australia against Pfizer as well as Aspen Pharmacare, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Some of the plaintiffs claim they lost hundreds of thousands of dollars and suffered family breakdowns thanks to the compulsive behavior allegedly linked to the pills. Most developed gambling addictions but a few exhibited compulsive sexual behaviour such as looking at pornography on the Internet, the paper continues. The lawsuit claims Pfizer, which sold Cabaser, and Aspen, which sold Permax, failed to provide adequate warnings of increased risk of compulsive disorders.
This is by no means the first time such litigation has been prompted by a class of pills known as dopamine agonists, which cause a rush and have been linked to risky behavior. In 2008, a jury in Minnesota awarded $8.2 million to a man who became a compulsive gambler after using Mirapex, which is sold by Boehringer Ingelheim, to treat Parkinson’s disease (background).
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