Public Citizen Sues US FDA To Get Boxed Warning On Dopamine Agonists For Compulsive Behaviors
Executive Summary
Consumer group's languishing petition seeks class-wide REMS on risk of impulse control adverse events, such pathological gambling, hypersexuality, compulsive shopping, and binge eating caused by dopamine agonists.
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