...than to ask permission. Or so said a friend, recently.
Perhaps that what Glaxo-Smith-Kline was thinking when they sold drugs that were not totally approved for the total audience they were targeting. One such drug was Paxil, an anti-depressant. Supposedly when children of a certain age, or younger, take this drug, they can become suicidal. Now isn't that what anti-depressants are supposed to stop? I don't really understand the reasons for all these anti-depressants, anyway. The second drug was Wellbutin. I have no idea what this is good for, but according to GSK, everything from weight loss to better sex. Uh huh...
The company, or some of its minions even bribed doctors with such perks as European pheasant hunts, and Madonna concert tickets, to push the drugs on their patients. The first would be interesting, the second, I'd have to sell on eBay; personally don't like Madonna.
So...those two drugs must have made them a tidy profit because they were just handed a fine, from the FDA, for between 1 and 3 billion dollars. Yikes! Now, that's some kind of forgiveness! Although I do wonder how many people, especially the underage Paxil users, who may have been hurt by the drug. There's no amount of money that could justify that!
As for me, I'll stick to aspirin...Day 218!
Perhaps that what Glaxo-Smith-Kline was thinking when they sold drugs that were not totally approved for the total audience they were targeting. One such drug was Paxil, an anti-depressant. Supposedly when children of a certain age, or younger, take this drug, they can become suicidal. Now isn't that what anti-depressants are supposed to stop? I don't really understand the reasons for all these anti-depressants, anyway. The second drug was Wellbutin. I have no idea what this is good for, but according to GSK, everything from weight loss to better sex. Uh huh...
The company, or some of its minions even bribed doctors with such perks as European pheasant hunts, and Madonna concert tickets, to push the drugs on their patients. The first would be interesting, the second, I'd have to sell on eBay; personally don't like Madonna.
So...those two drugs must have made them a tidy profit because they were just handed a fine, from the FDA, for between 1 and 3 billion dollars. Yikes! Now, that's some kind of forgiveness! Although I do wonder how many people, especially the underage Paxil users, who may have been hurt by the drug. There's no amount of money that could justify that!
As for me, I'll stick to aspirin...Day 218!
