The 51-year-old's lawyers say their client's behaviour changed radically after he was first administered the drug in 2003 for the illness, which causes tremors, slows movement and disrupts speech. Didier Jambart, a married father-of-two who says he has attempted suicide three times, claims he became addicted to Internet gambling, losing the family's savings and stealing to feed his habit.
Photo from here.
He also became a compulsive gay sex addict and began exposing himself on the internet and cross-dressing. His risky sexual encounters led to him being raped, his lawyers said. The behaviour stopped when he stopped taking the drugs in 2005 but by then he had been demoted in his defence ministry job and was suffering from psychological trauma resulting from his addictions, his lawyers said.
The plaintiff is seeking a total of 450,000 euros ($610,000) in damages from Glaxo, which he accuses of selling a "defective" drug, and from his neurologist for having failed to properly inform him about the drug. The drug, Requip, has been known for years to have undesired side effects but a warning only appeared on its package insert in 2006, his lawyers said.
4 comments:
I doubt the gay part was because of the drug.
This has nothing to do with drugs. This has everything to do with someone with a boatload of issues and repression who needs real psychological help. I hope he gets that help.
I've actually heard of this sort of thing with Parkinson's drugs before.
the human brain is a finely tuned chemical machine and its not a big surprise that side effects like that can happen on a drug that targets the nervous system
Post a Comment