Maker of OxyContin Reaches Settlement With West Virginia(for addiction)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/06/business/06drug.html?pagewanted=print&position=

Purdue Pharma reached a settlement with regulators in West Virginia yesterday over claims that it had inappropriately marketed OxyContin, its controversial painkiller, to state residents.

The agreement, which averts a trial, involves a $10 million sum paid over a four-year period to drug abuse and education programs in West Virginia.

The attorney general for West Virginia, Darrell V. McGraw Jr., sued Purdue Pharma, which specializes in a variety of painkilling medicines, in June 2001, accusing the company of aggressively marketing OxyContin, a highly addictive prescription drug, to state residents, many of whom became addicted.

Purdue, which admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement, has said that the drug is safe if used responsibly.

[Kagemusha]

1. This "legal person" acted like a common crack dealer.

Too bad there's no jail time.

[demnan]

2. You mean

religion wasn't enough of an opiate of the masses so they had to use something else?

No wonder WV went red . . .

[TaleWgnDg]

3. . . . tort reform! tort reform! tort reform!

Shut down America's ability to sue corporations! Why should states be able to sue in a public lawsuit (such as this West Virginia case) if private lawsuits cannot be brought by individuals!?

Is George Walker Bush and his corporate suck-asses going to shut down, not only the citizen's right to sue corporate wrongdoers but also are those suck-asses going to shut down the right to sue of the states too? Such as here, the State of West Virginia?

ROFLMAO . . . this tort reform crap is going to be a very messy congressional fight. What better way to shut-out the Dems campaign funding than to shut out the so-called "trial attorneys" who back the Dems?

[chookie]

4. Let me get this straight

Our pharmaceutical companies have come clean about existing purely for profit. Their Republican CEOs say they have absolutely no moral obligation to produce critically needed vaccines or new antibiotics, but that their obligation is only to their shareholders, so they produce profitable stuff like Viagra instead.

Let's see -- they exist for profit.

Their salespersons are PRESSURED to meet quotas. They are PRESSURED to get as many people on Zoloft and Viagra and Oxycontin as they can. Their advertisers are PRESSURED to create new "needs" for these drugs.

But when there are problems from their incessant pill pushing (god damn the pusher man) -- it is the fault of the individual "bad apple" who made the "wrong choice."

Shove it up your ass, Republican bastards!

[robbedvoter]

5. But at least we've got "values!" - hapy, happy, happy Oxycotin dance.