MORE than 100 people who allegedly became addicted to gambling and pornography after taking a prescription drug used to treat tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease are suing two drug companies.
The case will take the form of a class action in the Federal Court.
The group includes people who sustained losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars and were involved in family breakdowns as a result of compulsive gambling allegedly linked to drugs they took between 1997 and last year.
Most of the claimants developed gambling addictions but a few exhibited compulsive sexual behaviour such as looking at pornography on the internet.
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