"When you’re selling $1 billion a year or more of a drug, it’s very tempting for a company to just ignore the traffic ticket and keep speeding.” A New York Times report reviews what has been accomplished by multiple civil and criminal lawsuits against Big Pharma companies that have relied almost entirely on fraud to market industry's worst pharmaceuticals--antipsychotic drugs--which have become industry's most profitable cash cow.
"The new generation of antipsychotics has also become the single biggest target of the False Claims Act, a federal law once largely aimed at fraud among military contractors. Every major company selling the drugs — Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson — has either settled recent government cases for hundreds of millions of dollars or is currently under investigation for possible health care fraud."
"Two of the settlements, involving charges of illegal marketing, set records last year for the largest criminal fines ever imposed on corporations. One involved Eli Lilly’s antipsychotic, Zyprexa; the other involved a guilty plea for Pfizer’s marketing of a pain pill, Bextra. In the Bextra case, the government also charged Pfizer with illegally marketing another antipsychotic, Geodon; Pfizer settled that part of the claim for $301 million, without admitting any wrongdoing."
But these lawsuits are no deterrent to crime, as Jerome Avorn, MD, Harvard medical professor correctly observes : "When you’re selling $1 billion a year or more of a drug, it’s very tempting for a company to just ignore the traffic ticket and keep speeding.”
Full Article and Source:
Lawsuits, Just the Cost of Criminal Marketing of Antipsychotic Drugs
See Also:
Side Effects May Include Lawsuits
WAKE UP AMERICA
ReplyDeleteThe Big Pharma companies push the antipsychotic drugs fraudulenty and they are not the only ones pushing them!
Your loved one could be next...
My mother was visiting Florida with my sister when mom fell prey to a Professional Guardian, Jetta Getty of Port Orange, Florida. I believe that Jetta Getty, as an "Officer of the Florida Court" used fraud with the antipshchotic drug "Zyprexa" to chemically restrain my mother, to silence her please to go home.
Jetta L. Getty, with "Young at Heart Elderly Services" personally requested a perscription under false pretenses and received Zyprexa.
Mother suffered most of the side effects of this drug, side effects which mirror the symptoms of altyzhemer. This activity of drugging the ward/prisoner with antipsychotic drugs is widely used by many "Professional Guardians" in our country like Getty. It is part of their plan to; isolate, medicate & liquidate the estate of seniors.
Some of these drugs are used on the elderly and are very dangerous increasing the rate of death.
ReplyDeleteZyprexa has a "Black Box Warning" not to be used with; the elderly, dementia or alzheimers patients but they are perscribed anyway!
Could that be attempted murder???
It should be!
This article is spot on!
ReplyDeleteThe profits far outweigh what Big Pharma may have to pay off in fines.
ReplyDeletePharma companies laugh that the fines are a drop in the bucket.
ReplyDeleteThe fines are factored into the cost of doing business.