Drugs Linked to 'Risky Sex'

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Doctors didn't warn women of 'risky sex' drug urges

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Women say doctors failed to warn them about side effects of Ropinirole for restless leg syndrome.

Report by drugs firm GSK shows link between drugs and 'deviant' sexual behaviour.

UK medicines regulator says there was a warning about increased libido and harmful behaviour.

20 women tell the BBC that the drugs ruined their lives.

Ropinirole has been prescribed for more than 17 million treatments and undergone "extensive clinical trials" UK 's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said a specific reference to sexual behaviour is not included in warnings, such as "deviant" behaviour.

In France , a court awarded damages to a father of two who complained that the drug had given him compulsive homosexual urges, while another man without a criminal record began torturing cats.

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