What’s so very adorable about Risperdal is how it’s marketed. What child doesn't like Legos? The makers of Risperdal has pharma rep puts legos stamped with the word RISPERDAL in pediatricians offices!
Mom and Dad get to see too ! Thanks pharma rep lady !
Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries will pay more than $2.2 billion – one of the largest health-care fraud settlements in history – to settle criminal and civil liabilities arising from marketing of Risperdal
No one goes to prison of course, When the lawsuits roll in from the families, they simply use a small portion of the windfall profits to settle out of court !!!
Pharma people are above the law. Health-care fraud ? No prison for them.
Johnson & Johnson was out promoting Risperdal for children and adolescents even though the FDA hadn't approved it yet.
NAMI, the pharma front, was pushing Risperdal too ! http://www.web.archive.org/web/19961221104126/http://www.nami.org/
J&J Sees Male Breasts And Quickly Settles Risperdal Suit
http://www.forbes.com/sites/edsilverman/2012/09/11/jj-sees-male-breasts-and-quickly-settles-risperdal-suit/
Was Johnson & Johnson worried what would happen when Aaron Banks took the stand to testify that its Risperdal antipsychotic allegedly caused him to grow breasts? Just as a trial in a Pennsylvania state court was about to begin, the health care giant settled the case, the first of dozens of such lawsuits charging the pill has caused gynecomastia – the abnormal development of large mammary glands in males – but labeling lacked sufficient warnings.
They were too busy labeling legos !