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Comment on Parkinson's sufferer wins six figure payout from GlaxoSmithKline over drug that turned him into a 'gay sex and gambling addict'

oneser@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

An absolute travesty of a headline and D grade clickbait reporting.

The award shows that there was enough evidence to determine that the drug induced a significant and damaging change to his psyche, which put him and his family through years of danger and hell. But let’s all have a laugh cos gay sex.

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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
something tells me the drug disinhibited and it unleashed his true self. much like how alcohol disinhibits people.

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- FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  And what tells you that?
  
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- TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s a dopamine agonist. Impulse control issues are a possible side effect.
  
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calliope@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Did he not tell his doctor for several years that he was all-of-a-sudden addicted to sex and gambling?

Maybe it’s just me but I would think “wow, this is unexpected behavior. Maybe I should talk to my doctor about my sudden urge for gay sex.”

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- FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Do you really think the average person would think “oh, surely there’s a straightforward medical explanation” instead of being ashamed & hiding the issue? Especially if they weren’t informed of this being a side effect of their medication?
  
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  - calliope@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    If it came on suddenly after taking the medication? Yeah. Absolutely. That’s actually what doctors are relying on, is being informed when things change.
    
    I have literally gone to the doctor and asked if my embarrassing side effect could be because of a medication. It was, so I stopped taking that medication.
    
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    FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    How do you know it came on suddenly? The article says:
    
    Within two years of beginning to take the drug the married father-of-two says he developed an uncontrollable passion for gay sex and gambling - at one point even selling his children’s toys to fund his addiction.
    
    “Within two years” implies that it developed over this time frame. That’s anything but sudden, especially since it most likely started off with sporadic impulses and got more intense over time - how addictions usually go.
    
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