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MHRA issues gambling addiction alert for popular antipsychotic drug

 
• By James Stent

The MHRA has warned that aripiprazole is linked to an increase in reports of “gambling disorder and pathological gambling”, as well as other impulse disorders.

Gambling addiction
Side effects could also include developing an “abnormally high sex drive”, the MHRA said
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James Stent joined C+D as a digital reporter in May 2023 from the South African human rights news agency GroundUp, where he was senior reporter and consultant editor.

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