"About one in five patients taking a therapeutic dose of a dopamine agonist, a class of drugs used to treat patients with Parkinson's disease, may develop compulsive gambling or hypersexuality, according to a study of patients treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.The same can be said of the IMHO malpractice known as diet drugs.
By contrast, these behaviors were not seen in untreated patients, those taking less than a therapeutic dose of a dopamine agonist, or patients receiving treatment with carbidopa/levodopa alone."
They will continue to find new problems with them as they do with other drugs.
It is just not worth it when weight loss is a virtual certainty if done right.
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