Oddest Side Effect I've Ever Heard (addict, medication, compulsive, psychotic)

[Calvert Hall '62]

The ambulance chasers are all over TV claiming that the anti-psychotic Abilify may result in compulsive gambling. It allegedly may also cause binge eating, but gambling is the primary concern. The drug somehow supposedly interacts adversely with dopamine.


I can see how a drug may lower a person's inhibitions but gambling? I mean in the general population, what percentage of people are at risk for that particular "vice"?

[HighFlyingBird]

That is interesting. Weird thing to sue for. How do you prove it was the medication and not just a weekend gone bad?

[magpiehere]

I take Mirapex - which is linked to compulsive sex and/or compulsive gambling. A drug affecting dopamine again.


What I wondered with the gambling - if a drug is the fire behind it would a 12 step program still help the "addiction"? could it even still be classified as that?