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    Hunderte erzählen der BBC, dass Medikamente Glücksspiel- und andere Süchte ausgelöst hätten

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    1. Nukes-For-Nimbys on

      Seeing how big a difference I’ve seen ADHDeds make for people with serious impulse control issues. It seems both initiative and horrifying that the opposite could exist.

      By not warning them doctors have removed any chance of people pushing through, this would just be a huge rug pull. Every voice would get massively more addictive.

    2. Gardylooper2 on

      I don’t think the medication is all that’s to be blamed here. When we’re medicated, we often become vulnerable in a myriad of other ways. Hopefullly at the benefit of escaping the big one that we can’t cope with alone.

      It can work, but gambling websites, stores, are in particular engineered to find the vulnerable and exploit.

      Cull parasite-gambling from our streets, please.

    3. Equilibriator on

      That’s gonna be a difficult one to prove. People on medication are more likely to be desperate and that leads to gambling.

    4. Alutus on

      I can’t remember which med it was (Possibly a betablocker for my POTS, if it wasn’t that it’d have been something mental health related) But one of the meds I used, for a couple of days after starting it for the first time, i did loads of stuff i don’t normally do (some scratch cards, gambling in video-games etc, nothing life destroying, just a bit inconvenient wastes of money).

      I did a load of googling as I was confused once I realised I was doing shit I don’t normally do, and whichever drug it was apparently could have an effect where it ‚increased your tolerance for risk‘.

      It didnt give you a compulsion or even make you think something wasn’t risky, it just moved the posts slightly to what you viewed as an acceptable risk in the risk/reward calculation we all make.

      Drugs are weird man.

    5. thereidenator on

      Ropinorole is a dopamine agonist, it works by increasing the level of dopamine in certain areas of the brain. I guess that would potentially make a person more excitable and impulsive. They work in the opposite way to an anti psychotic drug and a common side effect is hallucinations, so acting out of character makes sense.

    7. Great-Big-3101 on

      I’m amazed people don’t read the leaflets that come with the medication. 

    8. neo101b on

      So taking this drug might lead to Alcohol, Drugs, Gambling and promiscuous sex ?

      Sign me up.

    9. davidwhitney on

      I don’t really know about the science here, but I loosely knew „Solicitor Andrew“ twenty years ago, and all the things that were claimed to be caused by the drugs were things he was absolutely doing before his illness and medication.

      The drugs were dragged up in the court case as mitigation as it was „out of character“, but it absolutely was not out of character, and seeing this story crop up this month of the BBC was very jarring to my first hand experience. A lot of tragedy, but feels like character rehabilitation.

    10. shakeandsnake on

      This happens with Parkinson’s medication as well. Anything to do with increasing dopamine seems to have this as a possible side effect

    11. FIR3W0RKS on

      Should probably rewrite that headline, but I’m sure it would get less clicks

      „Hundreds *lie* to the BBC“

    12. michellea2023 on

      just another reason not to trust doctors who hand drugs out like sweets

    13. Scumbaggio1845 on

      If this drug is truly making people gamble away tens of thousands pounds which wouldn’t have happened otherwise then surely just giving them codeine tablets or slow release dihydrocodeine for RLS is probably going to have fewer undesirable outcomes?

      I would definitely rather be constipated than take a medication that makes me want to cross dress or gamble or my money away.

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