Opinion: Legal judgments against big pharma aren't enough. Consumers need to change their drug habits (via latimesopinion)
cough syrup and Parke-Davis advertised its cocaine as able to “make the coward brave, the silent eloquent and render the sufferer insensitive to pain.”
We clearly can’t count on regulators or the drug companies themselves to protect us. Instead, consumers need to realize that every drug comes with both risk and rewards, and both need to be fully analyzed. Many prescription drugs can benefit patients who deal with heart disease, epilepsy, Parkinson’s, glaucoma, depression and dozens of other serious health problems, and there is no doubt that drugs save lives.
It’s great that J&J will have to pay Oklahoma for the company’s role in the opioid crisis. But the $562- million fine isn’t going to seriously hurt a company that expects to bring in more than $80 billion in sales this year. For the judgments in this case and the settlements and judgments in other cases to make a difference, consumers have to learn from them.
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