Caroline Winter reported this story on Friday, September 20, 2013 18:22:00
ASHLEY HALL: Compulsive gambling, spending and hypersexuality are just some of the negative side effects experienced by patients taking medications to manage some chronic illnesses.
Now, after years of fighting for compensation, sufferers of Parkinson's disease and Restless Leg Syndrome seem close to settling one of two class actions they've brought against drug companies.
Many sufferers have been damaged financially and emotionally, and they say while the end of the case will bring some kind of closure, it won't bring back the years lost.
Doctors say there's a need to better highlight the dangers associated with the drugs. (Ashley, 2013)
Statement analysis
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- Compulsive gambling, spending and hypersexuality are
- just some of the negative side effects experienced by patients
- taking medications to manage some chronic illnesses.
- Now, after years of fighting for compensation,
- sufferers of Parkinson's disease and Restless Leg Syndrome seem close
- to settling one of two class actions
- they've brought against drug companies.
- Many sufferers have been damaged financially and emotionally,
- and they say while the end of the case will bring some kind of closure,
- it won't bring back the years lost.
- Doctors say there's a need to better highlight the dangers
- associated with the drugs.
Word vocabulary - English
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com·pul·sive
Resulting from or relating to an irresistible urge, esp. one that is against one's conscious wishes
hypersexuality
The desire for human sexual behavior at levels high enough to be considered clinically significant
com·pen·sa·tion
Something, typically money, awarded to someone as a recompense for loss, injury,
rest·less
(of a person or animal) Unable to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom
set·tle
Resolve or reach an agreement about (an argument or problem)
case
An instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring
clo·sure
An act or process of closing something, esp. an institution, thoroughfare, or frontier, or of being closed
high·light
An outstanding part of an event or period of time
Word vocabulary - Japanese
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compulsive
kəmpʌ́lsiv
【名】強迫神経症の人、強迫神経症患者
【形-1】何かに駆りたてられたような、せずにいられない、我慢できないような、やむにやまれぬ、病みつきの
【形-2】人の心をとらえて離さない
【形-3】強制的な
【形-4】強迫観念に取り付かれた
【分節】com・pul・sive
settling
【名-1】沈下、沈降、沈殿（物）、糟
【名-2】移住、植民
【名-3】据えること、鎮静和解、解決決定
compensation
kɑ̀mp[ə]nséiʃn
【名-1】補償金、埋め合わせ、マイナス［損した分］を補うこと、償い、補償、代償、賠償（金）、弁償、損害補償◆【略】comp
【名-2】（労働などに対する）支払い、対価、報酬、賃金、給与
【＠】コンペンセイション、【変化】《複》compensations、【分節】com・pen・sa・tion
class action
クラスアクション、共同訴訟、集団代表訴訟
case
kéis
【1-名-2】訴訟
closure
klóuʒə[r]
【名-1】閉鎖、締切、閉店、終了、封鎖、通行止め、撤廃
【名-3】気持ちの整理をすること、破たんした関係にけりをつけること
【＠】クロージャー、クロウジャー、【変化】《複》closures、【分節】clo・sure
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Ashley, H. (2013). Compensation close for drug affected patients. Available: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2013/s3853479.htm Last accessed 21st Sep 2013.
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