Plaintiff Verdis M. has filed an Abilify gambling problem lawsuit against the manufactures of the drug for suffering from a gambling addiction problem due to him taking the medication.

He files the lawsuit against manufacturers Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

According to the Abilify gambling problem lawsuit, the plaintiff is a resident for the state of Illinois. He files the Abilify gambling problem lawsuit in a federal court in Illinois.

According to the Abilify gambling problem lawsuit, Verdis began taking Abilify in 2002 up until 2016.

The Abilify gambling problem lawsuit states that “as a result of Abilify use, plaintiff has suffered the following losses: monetary losses in excess of $250,000, loss of financial stability, and other mental, physical, and economic losses, the injurious impact of Abilify on plaintiff’s brain constitutes a physical injury.”

The defendants, according to the Abilify gambling problem lawsuit, face the following counts against them: 1) Strict Liability; 2) Breach of Express Warranty; 3) Breach of Implied Warranty; 4) Negligence; 5) Negligence Per Se; 6) Negligent Misrepresentation; 7) Violation of Consumer Protection Laws, specifically the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act; 8) Fraudulent Concealment; and 9) Punitive Damages.

Abilify Gambling Problem Lawsuit Abilify Facts

Verdis and many other Abilify patients like him purport that the drug’s manufactures failed to warn patients of the adverse effects in causing compulsive gambling. Many patients, therefore, just like Verdis, have suffered from extreme losses due to this adverse effect. They hope in filing lawsuits against the manufactures to reclaim some of the financial losses that they have suffered.

Allegations raised against the company maintain that the drug’s warning label did not identify compulsive gambling as an adverse side effect of the medication. In addition, warnings of compulsive gambling had only been added in 2010, after the drug had already been on the market for eight years.

Several adverse event reports have also been filed and cited by the FDA. The adverse event reports are complaints filed by patients who have suffered from adverse side effects. Some of those side effects not only include compulsive gambling, but compulsive, eating, shopping, and sex. These adverse event reports were cited by the federal agency in May 2016.

How Abilify Causes Compulsive Behavior

Although experts are not exactly sure how Abilify causes compulsive behavior, they do believe that it is because it has an impact on the brain’s dopamine pathway.

According to an article titled “The Neural Circuitry of Reward and Its Relevance to Psychiatric Disorders,” the authors say that a possible mechanism by which drugs that act on dopamine neurons, like aripiprazole, might possibly have some effect on behavior related to award.”

The Abilify Gambling Problem Lawsuit is Case No. 3:17-cv-00796-MCR-CJK, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Pensacola Division. The Abilfy MDL is In re: Abilify (Aripiprazole) Products Liability Litigation, MDL No 3:16-md-2734, also in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Pensacola Division.