So they will jack up the prices of their products to cover the tab? this is just another tax, don’tcha know. Not condoning what they did but for anyone except for the lawyers involved, how is this going to improve things?
It won’t improve things. You’re right, it’s just another tax. I would go further and say it’s nothing more than a payoff. They should be prosecuted, but the FDA is in bed with them, so it won’t happen.
Zyprexa is not the only drug they’ve done this with, and their flagrant unsubstantiated recommendations for all their psychotropics (Cymbalta is another good example) are despicable.
Big pharma is so full up with greed that there’s no room for ethics anymore.
This is a significant result, because it sets a legal precedent. Pharmaceutical companies will have to severely limit their market push for drugs. Most importantly, they will no longer be able to market most psychiatric drugs to general physicians without great risk of lawsuit. That will eliminate a lot of the problems that have been very common in medicine — inappropriate use of psychiatric medication based on professional incompetence —, because of the lack of training in most general physicians when it comes to psychiatric diagnosis, assessment, and treatment.