The Public Citizen is reporting that $48 million has been set aside by the makers of the antidepressant/ anti-anxiety drug Paxil. They have even gone as far as promoting it on You Tube. The short of it is that parents can get reimbursements for the money they spent on buying the drug for their child under 18. It’s part of a class-action lawsuit because the drug was fraudulently promoted to doctors to give to children, despite its heavy and dangerous side effects. For more info check out the Paxil Payback website.
Despite loving the fact that these guys have to admit wrongdoing and pay for it, I am still upset that criminal charges aren’t brought against these companies for their deliberite deception that has resulted in trauma and death too many times to be excusable (as in the Oxycontin verdict). They either need to pay so much they go out of business or go to prison for millions of accounts of assualt.
