Requip Lawyers Serving Parkinson's Disease and RLS Patients Prescribed Requip and Who Suffered Side Effects, Including Compulsive Gambling, or Gambling Addiction & Other Compulsive Disorders or Obsessive Behaviors. Our Requip Lawyers Provide Free Attorney Consultations Nationally, in Alaska Alabama Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Massachusetts Maryland Maine Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana North Carolina North Dakota Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Vermont Washington Wisconsin West Virginia and Wyoming.
If you believe that you or a loved one has suffered a compulsive gambling disorder or other side effect of Requip, submit the e-mail Requip Liability Lawyers Case Evaluation Request. Our Requip lawyers are highly qualified California pharmaceutical product liability attorneys serving those nationally who have developed compulsive disorders, including compulsive gambling, a recognized side effect resulting from use of Requip for Parkinson's disease or Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS). Requip (ropinirole) is a non-ergoline dopamine agonist manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). As discussed more fully below, our Requip attorneys have reviewed the scientific literature and believe that there is ample scientific evidence to establish an increased incidence of compulsive gambling associated with the use of Requip. Our Requip lawyers also consider it significant that Requip, as a dopamine agonist, works by mimicking the neurotransmitter, as does a similar dopamine agaonist, Mirapex, which has also been demonstrated by extensive epidemiological investigation to impair impulse control, resulting in compulsive gambling and other obsessive compulsive disorders.
Our Requip attorneys welcome you to contact us for a free consultation if you or a loved one developed a compulsive gambling disorder or other impulse control disorder while taking Requip. You may contact our California Requip lawyers by submitting the "Requip Attorneys Case Evaluation Request."
As our Requip lawyers have observed, it may first become apparent to family members that their loved one has developed a compulsive gambling or other disorder. Often the individual who is taking Requip for Parkinsons disease or RLS will not appreciate that he has a compulsion or that his gambling is out of control, a phenomenon which is sometimes called a gambling addiction. Most commonly the family will notice that the individual has developed compulsive gambling or another compulsive disorder which, when juxtaposed against his physician's medical records will demonstrate that it occurred following the onset of Requip use. Our Requip attorneys have noted that following discontinuance of Requip the compulsive gambling disorder or other impulse control disorder will abate.
Our Requip lawyers serve those who have developed compulsive gambling disorders and other obsessive compulsive disorders nationally. Our expectation is that most, if not all Requip cases filed nationally will be joined in Multidistrict litigation in one federal district court. Here in California, our Requip lawyers welcome those who have developed compulsive disorders while on Requp to contact us in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Orange County, San Jose, San Francisco and Sacramento. Nationally, our Requip lawyers are pleased to provide case consultations to those who have developed compulsive gambling or another compulsive disorder following administration of Requip for Parkinsons disease or RLS in Alaska Alabama Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Massachusetts Maryland Maine Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana North Carolina North Dakota Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Vermont Washington Wisconsin West Virginia and Wyoming.
The Scientific Evidence Our Requip Lawyers Have Developed With Regard to the Association Between Requip Use and Compulsive Gambling Disorders and Other Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in Parkinsons Disease Patients, and Those Prescribed Requip for Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS).
Our Requip lawyers have reviewed the scientific literature implicating Requip as causing compulsive disorders, including compulsive gambling disorder, through the date on which this Requip attorneys page was drafted. This is an active subject matter for scientific review and so our Requip lawyers must insert the proviso that the following information may not be complete, although we will make an effort to periodically update this page. If you have questions with regard to additional studies or the most current information with regard to the literature associating Requip with compulsive gambling and other obsessive compulsive disorders, you may speak to our Requip lawyers by submitting our "Requip Attorneys Contact Form" in the upper right corner of this page.
The scientific evidence that has persuaded our Requip lawyers that the drug is responsible for causing many who use it to develop compulsive gambling disorders and other compulsive disorders is twofold (1) the epidemiological literature demonstrating the increased incidence of gambling and other compulsive disorders in association with Requip use; and (2) the similarity in category of drug, dopamine agonist, and the similarity in the "mechanism of action" of Requip to that of another dopamine agonist, Mirapex, which was previously demonstrated epidemiologically to cause gambling and other compulsive disorders.
The mechanism of action of Requip is to mimic a neurotransmitter, dopamine, and is therefore useful in treating some of the symptoms of Parkinsons disease, including the tremors characterizing the disease. In 2005 Requip was also approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in patients with Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS). Since dopamine also serves to reinforce how the brain reinforces certain behaviors with sensations of pleasure, our Requip lawyers review the scientific evidence as convincing that dopamine agonists, such as Requip, also reinforce activities such as gambling with increased feelings of pleasure. Dopamine agonists have these chemical side effects, often previously interpreted as psychological addictions, among other things because one common sensation associated with the drug is the excitement, similar to a natural excitement, or "rush," as would be associated with receiving a reward, so that gambling and other experiences perceived as rewarding may become a compulsion disorder. Requip, just as other dopamine agonists, such as Miripex, has the effect to impair impulse control, so that those receiving the drug may not be able to control their impulse to gamble or eat or control other desires. Those who once gambled responsibly, for example, may spend more time gambling, or may have the impulse to seek a greater "high" by gambling greater amounts of money.
As our Requip attorneys have observed, compulsive gambling can lead to devastating consequences, the loss of wealth, debt, bankruptcy, divorce, broken families, all the while the patient and family unaware that his behaviors have been altered by the effects of this drug on his brain - until it is too late. In one recent case, a physician who received the drug lost 14 million dollars gambling at casinos across the nation.
Our Requip lawyers have reviewed all the scientific literature identifying similar behavioral changes in those who took the drug Mirapex, a drug which has the same dopamine agonist mechanism of action and had the same effect on those who took it, to impair their impulse control, leading to compulsive gambling and other obsessive compulsive disorders. As early as 2003 it was discovered by researchers at Muhmmad Ali Parkinson Research Center that patients receiving Mirapex were developing gambling addictions. The Mayo Clinic, reported in 2005 that 14 patients receiving Requip and other dopamine agonists had developed gambling addition. And then in what our Requip attorneys consider to be a very important study, researchers in 2008 described at an International Congress of Parkinsons Disease and Movement Disorders conference in Chicago that 13 percent of a large study group of 3000 patients receiving dopamine agonists were found to suffer at least 1 of 4 compulsive behaviors.
From a legal standpoint, our Requip attorneys consider it negligent and a matter of strict liability for GlaxoSmithKline to have failed to warn those receiving the drug of the propensity of Requip to result in gambling addition and other compulsive disorders. The manufacturer should have anticipated that its dopamine agonist would have the same side effects as the similar dopamine agonist, Mirapex, the two having the same likely mechanism of action, and with as background the body of scientific evidence generally on the functions of dopamine in the brain and hence the side effects to be anticipated with drugs which mimic the neurotransmitter. Even as the evidence mounted both with regard to Mirapex and Requip, GlaxoSmithKline failed to warn of the increased incidence of compulsive gambling and other obsessions associated with its dopamine agonist. It is for this reason that our Requip lawyers consider that lawsuits against GlaxoSmithKline will establish the manufacturer's liability for the gambling losses, the pain and suffering associated with addictions, the damage to family relationships, and other consequential damages.
If you received Requip and suffered a gambling addiction or compulsion or other compulsive disorder, our Requip lawyers welcome you to contact us for a free case evaluation. Simply fill out the "Requip Attorneys Case Evaluation Request" at the top right of this page, and we will contact you to review your history of Requip use and behavioral side effects, gambling addiction or other compulsive behavior, provide our initial impressions, and answer any questions you may have of us. There is absolutely no charge or obligation associated with our free consultations. It will serve us just to learn about your Requip drug side effect as a part of our continuing anecdotal education, so please do not hesitate to call.
Requip Gambling Side Effect Lawyers Author Article Explaining Requip Lawsuits And to Attempt to Gain Understanding in Public for Those Suffering Parkinson's Disease and RLS Who Experienced a Gambling Addition or Other Compulsive Disorder Resulting From Requip Use.
Our Requip lawyers have published an article widely in a number of Internet forums attempting to counter public misconceptions with regard to what is commonly referred to as "gambling addiction," in Parkinson's Disease and RLS patients, explaining that it is a side effect of Requip and Mirapex use that has resulted in this compulsive disorder. In the article, our Requip attorneys also explain Requip lawsuits so that the public can understand the scientific basis for the litigation against GlaxoSmithKline, including the manufacturer's negligence in failing to warn of the medical profession and consumer of the gambling and other compulsive disorder side effects. We have provided a " Requip Lawsuits" page here, on which we have reprinted the article. We have attempted to be sensitive to the concerns of those who have suffered compulsive gambling disorders as the result of this side effect of Requip. However, we welcome the views of Parkinson's Disease and RLS patients with regard to our efforts in this regard, and if you have comments or criticisms, we welcome you to make your feelings known to us, which you can do by expressing your thoughts on the Requip attorney contact form at the top right aspect of this page.
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