Most any prescription medicine is bound to come with some potential side effects. Compulsive gambling usually isn’t one of them.
In a lawsuit against three drug companies filed July 6 in Middlesex Superior Court, a 70-year-old Middletown man is blaming the prescription drug Mirapex for his out-of-control gambling problem that cost him most of his life’s savings, alienated his friends and family, and damaged his reputation. Santo Salafia claims he went from living “extremely frugally” to blowing through the lion’s share of his retirement fund, just by taking medicine to combat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
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