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Public Citizen Sues US FDA To Get Boxed Warning On Dopamine Agonists For Compulsive Behaviors

 
• By Sue Sutter

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.

Impulse Control Disorder
Public Citizen asserts there is a classwide, causal relationship between between dopamine agonists and impulse control behaviors. • Source: Shutterstock

The consumer group Public Citizen is taking its dispute with the US Food and Drug Administration over labeling for dopamine agonist products to court.

In a lawsuit filed 29 April, the group seeks to force agency action on a nearly three-year-old citizen petition...

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