Two years after Johnson & Johnson received a fine of $2.2 billion from the U.S. Department of Justice for “misbranding” Risperdal, the Cherokee Nation is suing the company for its misrepresentations of the drug as safe and effective for the elderly. J&J marketed Risperdal as a treatment for older people with agitation from dementia, a practice the FDA warned is dangerous for older people.
Of further interest:
Tribe Sues Over Drug ‘Misbranding’ (Sequoyah County Times)
Go for it; Cherokee Nation! Risperadal is an evil drug for all ages and all peoples and should be taken off the market for good. That is not the only drug, though. The list is too endless!
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Go get them :). I’m keeping my fingers crossed for the outcome. The only shame is that these things never end up as criminal cases.
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As if we hadn’t committed enough atrocities against Native Americans over the centuries, modern Big Pharma needed to get into the act by foisting this brain-numbing toxin on them!
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Umm, is this the same Johnson & Johnson as well as, subsidiary stated here:
“By September 2012 Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals faced more than 130 Risperdal and/or Invega lawsuits”? The same Johnson & Johnson that had the $62 BILLION dollar settlement brought by the US Attorney General Eric Holder for the use of Invega Sustenna wrongly administered to/on our elderly? WOW.
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