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DOSTINEX (NDA-020664)

(CABERGOLINE)

Safety-related Labeling Changes Approved by FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)

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12/13/2019 (SUPPL-17)

Approved Drug Label (PDF)

5 Warnings and Precautions

PRECAUTIONS

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Psychiatric: Impulse control/compulsive behaviors, including pathological gambling, increased libido, and hypersexuality have been reported in patients treated with dopamine agonists including cabergoline. This has been generally reversible upon reduction of the dose or treatment discontinuation (See Postmarketing Surveillance data). Prescribers should consider dose reduction or stopping the medication if a patient develops such urges while taking cabergoline.

6 Adverse Reactions

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Other events have been reported in association with cabergoline: impulse control/compulsive behavior symptoms, including hypersexuality, increased libido and pathological gambling (See PRECAUTIONS, Psychiatric). In addition, cases of alopecia, aggression and psychotic disorder have been reported in patients taking DOSTINEX. Some of these reports have been in patients who have had prior adverse reactions to dopamine agonist products.

17 PCI/PI/MG (Patient Counseling Information/Patient Information/Medication Guide)

PATIENT INFORMATION

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Patients should be alerted to the possibility that patients may experience intense urges to spend money uncontrollably, intense urges to gamble, increased sexual urges, and other intense urges and the inability to control these urges while taking cabergoline. Advise patients to inform their healthcare provider if they develop new or increased uncontrolled spending, gambling urges, sexual urges, or other urges while being treated with cabergoline (See PRECAUTIONS).