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    Centinaia di persone hanno riferito alla BBC che i farmaci hanno innescato il gioco d’azzardo e altre dipendenze

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    1. Nukes-For-Nimbys on

      Seeing how big a difference I’ve seen ADHDeds make for people with serious impulse control issues. It seems both initiative and horrifying that the opposite could exist.

      By not warning them doctors have removed any chance of people pushing through, this would just be a huge rug pull. Every voice would get massively more addictive.

    2. Gardylooper2 on

      I don’t think the medication is all that’s to be blamed here. When we’re medicated, we often become vulnerable in a myriad of other ways. Hopefullly at the benefit of escaping the big one that we can’t cope with alone.

      It can work, but gambling websites, stores, are in particular engineered to find the vulnerable and exploit.

      Cull parasite-gambling from our streets, please.

    3. Equilibriator on

      That’s gonna be a difficult one to prove. People on medication are more likely to be desperate and that leads to gambling.

    4. Alutus on

      I can’t remember which med it was (Possibly a betablocker for my POTS, if it wasn’t that it’d have been something mental health related) But one of the meds I used, for a couple of days after starting it for the first time, i did loads of stuff i don’t normally do (some scratch cards, gambling in video-games etc, nothing life destroying, just a bit inconvenient wastes of money).

      I did a load of googling as I was confused once I realised I was doing shit I don’t normally do, and whichever drug it was apparently could have an effect where it ‘increased your tolerance for risk’.

      It didnt give you a compulsion or even make you think something wasn’t risky, it just moved the posts slightly to what you viewed as an acceptable risk in the risk/reward calculation we all make.

      Drugs are weird man.

    5. thereidenator on

      Ropinorole is a dopamine agonist, it works by increasing the level of dopamine in certain areas of the brain. I guess that would potentially make a person more excitable and impulsive. They work in the opposite way to an anti psychotic drug and a common side effect is hallucinations, so acting out of character makes sense.

    6. No-String3282 on

      increased impulsivity can be a side effect of a lot of drugs

    7. Great-Big-3101 on

      I’m amazed people don’t read the leaflets that come with the medication. 

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