 Antidepressant drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is facing legal charges that
its drug (Seroxat) is dangerous and causes adolescents to commit
suicide. The charges come from New York state Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer who also claims the company hid the results of drug trials that
proved the drugs were dangerous. Similar charges may be filed soon in
the UK, where a patient support group for users of the GSK drug says
that the drug causes people to become aggressive or suicidal. All this
is being reported in The Independent from the UK. Without question,
the heat is on for the pharmaceutical industry. After years of pushing
dangerous drugs onto the public, burying unfavorable study results, and
resisting efforts to protect the public health, drug companies are now
starting to face the music. With hundreds of millions of people now
suffering the ravages of dangerous prescription drug side effects, class
action lawsuits are inevitable. In a sense, the pharmaceutical
industry's own marketing success has created an unprecedented liability:
the inevitable wave of backlash lawsuits. As more evidence surfaces that
drug companies falsified and distorted study results, causing great harm
to the public health, we will no doubt see more of these lawsuits
appear. In the United States, there's hardly a person alive who hasn't
been harmed in some way by prescription drugs or over-the-counter
medications. This widespread harm will come back to haunt the
pharmaceutical industry and will, eventually, lead to its downfall.
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