questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of patients exposed to dopamine agonists for (a) Parkinson’s disease and (b) restless legs syndrome; and what comparison the Department has made between (i) the number of Yellow Card reports of impulse control disorders associated with those medicines and (ii) prevalence rates of those disorders reported in large clinical cohorts in the UK over the last 20 years.
answerText: The information requested on dopamine agonists is not held centrally nor held in the format requested and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.Dopamine agonists encompass a range of medicines authorised for the management of Parkinson’s disease...
heading: Drugs: Side Effects