17-Feb-10. Parkinson’s class action approved. National Post, A4.

An Ontario judge has approved a class-action lawsuit by Parkinson’s patients who say a commonly used drug turned them into gambling addicts, causing some to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. A growing number of studies have linked dopamine agonist medicine to excessive gambling, sex addiction and other compulsive behaviour in a minority of those who suffer from Parkinson’s.

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