Errrrr Elli Lillyonly says it is one percent. She was lied to.
Third, the right way to solve a medical problem is medical reform, not suing companies because risk assessments were inconclusive or inapplicable to *your* case in any event.
Wrong answer. Eli Lilly recklessly sold this drug to everyone for everything to make MORE money. They could have made plenty just marketing it responsibly and reporting side effects. They should pay through the teeth if they caused the death and injury of others due to their actions or inaction. Our law does not allow them to be jailed. Only a deluded IDIOT would think they should walk away with the money after they trashed peoples lives.
Why do you think they maximize the revenue from this single drug? Is it the prohibitive testing costs for finding any possible risk from a new drug? Is it the threat of new lawsuits should any new drug be "shown" by a trial lawyer to "cause" injury?
The reason these drugs work for all these things is basically a placebo effect. That's how it works for depression and probably many other psychological illnesses and behaviors. People believe it works and the incidental chemical effect in the brain makes no difference. Other psychoactive drugs are much more disruptive to brain chemistry, they have no healing effect, the patient simply has to do that himself.
I don't know the merits of these various lawsuits, but I do know that they are not generally used to punish wrongdoers. Usually the costs are passed to insurance companies, shareholders, and consumers.