Re:PD drugs creates gambling addiction!!

I know you are onto something here. I don't want to dispute it all all, but my story is different:
NONE of my family, sisters and brothers and parents, are addicted to anything. Siblings are Sober, parents teetottalers..

AND THEN CAME I!! - addicted for 15 years now.

To be fair and use my best excuse, it has all been from Doctor's prescription [morphine], until just three years ago when I started adding to what the doc gives me, and that has something to do with the Doc being stubborn about 'tolerance'.

Tobbacco too. So its envornmental, not so much genetic, in my case.
But that doesn't prove anything, because anyone can get addicted.

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I TRULY BELIEVE that there is "something in the air, water, food, etc. that is leading so many people to be addicted - to food, to TV to Sex to drugs to gambling.

That report about PD pateints on a PD drug becoming seriously addicted GAMBLERS. Weird... that says something...

article:

"Parkinson's Disease Drugs Create Pathological Gamblers"
- Hypersexuality also noted as a side effect in study

July 11, 2005 - Eleven patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) developed pathological gambling behavior following dopamine agonist therapy, a drug therapy to control movement problems caused by Parkinson's disease, according to a study posted online today which will appear in the September print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

"In summary, dopamine agonist drugs appear to be uniquely implicated as a cause of pathological gambling," the authors conclude. "Both our series and prior reports have especially linked this to administration of the selective dopamine D3 agonist pramipexole. Disproportionate stimulation of dopamine D3 receptors might be responsible for pathological gambling in these PD cases."

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K - I can't get the link right now, but just "Google" the title [in quotes above] and you will get several links to read on this item.




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