Noel Titheridge

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Global News Podcast · The Global Story: The medications that can trigger sex and gambling addictions · 12 Apr 2026 podcast

These hadn't appeared to any great degree as far as we understand in clinical trials.

So you've got a situation where patients aren't aware.

prescribing.

Doctors aren't aware and they don't appear in leaflets at all.

But our investigation found out that doctors did begin to share stories about the crazy, wild experiences that their patients were having.

These side effects that led to huge debts, they led to the breakup of marriages, criminality, and even in some cases, suicide.

Well, academics in the early noughties begin to publish reports proving this link between these drugs and impulsive behaviours.

And this is followed by clinical research by the pharmaceutical companies.

Yeah, this is the early to mid 2000s.

There's a significant study that finds that one in six people on these drugs develop impulsive behaviours.

Wow.

Now, to kind of put that in perspective, health authorities here, they say that a side effect is very common if it affects one in 10 sufferers.

So while not all side effects will be extreme or severe, some academics put the relationship even higher.

They say one in three people are affected.

Well, these drugs can be life-changing for many people, particularly, we're told, by Parkinson's sufferers, for them in the early stages of the condition.

And regulators have always made these calculations that the benefits overall outweigh the risks.

But what many people tell us, these people that have gotten in touch with us, that have experienced these side effects, is that the complete scale of these side effects and the nature of them, everyone needs to be aware of it.

So warnings do appear in the mid to late.

So they begin to appear in the leaflets, the packaging that you'll receive in the medication in that small font.

Exactly.

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