pms-Aripiprazole Special Precautions

Pathological Gambling and Other Compulsive Behaviours: Post-marketing case reports suggest that patients can experience intense urges, particularly for gambling, and the inability to control these urges while taking aripiprazole. Other compulsive urges, reported less frequently include: sexual urges, shopping, eating or binge eating, and other impulsive or compulsive behaviours. Because patients may not recognize these behaviours as abnormal, it is important for prescribers to ask patients or their caregivers specifically about the development of new or intense gambling urges, compulsive sexual urges, compulsive shopping, binge or compulsive eating, or other urges while being treated with aripiprazole. It should be noted that impulse-control symptoms can be associated with the underlying disorder. In some cases, although not all, urges were reported to have stopped when the dose was reduced or the medication was discontinued. Compulsive behaviours may result in harm to the patient and others if not recognized. Consider dose reduction or stopping the medication if a patient develops such urges.
Use in Pregnancy & Lactation: See USE IN PREGNANCY & LACTATION section for further information.