An Ontario judge has approved a class-action lawsuit by Parkinson’s patients who say a drug turned them into gambling addicts

An Ontario judge has approved to a class-action lawsuit by Parkinson’s patients who say a drug turned them into gambling addicts

New research has shown that reducing the dosage of dopamine agonist (DA) drugs, a mainstay treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD), sometimes causes acute withdrawal symptoms similar to those reported by cocaine addicts -- including anxiety, panic attacks, depression, sweating, nausea, generalized pain, fatigue, dizziness and drug cravings. These symptoms can be severe, and are not alleviated by ...

NAPLES — A retired dentist serving a 10-year prison term in a medical facility for molesting a teenager at Lely Barefoot Beach is now being sued by the teen and his parents. The lawsuit filed by John Doe and his parents against David Rees Sperry, 68, of Naples, seeks compensation for the sexual abuse of their son, a 14-year-old boy Sperry molested on April 3, 2007, on the nature trail at Lely ...

A retired dentist serving a 10-year prison term in a medical facility for molesting a teenager at Lely Barefoot Beach is now being sued by the teen and his parents. The lawsuit filed by John Doe and his parents against David Rees Sperry, 68, of Naples, seeks compensation for the sexual abuse of their son, a 14-year-old boy Sperry molested on April 3, 2007, on the nature trail at Lely Barefoot ...

NAPLES, Fla. -- A Collier Circuit Court judge rejected a 68-year-old Naples man's defense that his Parkinson's and dementia medications compelled him to molest a teenage boy and sentenced him Thursday to 10 years in a state prison.

A Collier Circuit Court judge rejected a 68-year-old Naples man’s defense that his Parkinson’s and dementia medications made him compelled to molest a teenage boy and sentenced him today to 10 years in a state prison.

The handwritten motion and the federal prison's return address should have raised some suspicions. But the allegations made for entertaining reading. Greg LeMond bikes going to Iran? Slave-like wages paid to the workers who made the bikes?

A Westchester man has filed a suit blaming the drug he used to treat his Parkinson's disease for a "pathological" gambling addiction that cost him millions of dollars.

A FORMER Wall Street banker who said he lost $US3 million ($3.1m) when his Parkinson's disease medication made him a compulsive gambler is suing the drug companies involved.