SCANDAL in the J&J family pharmaceutical company!
I've never trust big companies. MacDonald's, Coca-Cola, Funimation, The CONGRESS; I all subscribe to their products, but I'm always suspicious of what their pushin'. I'm particularly suspicious of pharmaceutical companies, a fear probably rooted from my experience with Capcom's Resident Evil game series and with my in my ignorance of how medicine works.It seems a big company Johnson & Johnson is shelling out more than 2.2 Billion big-ones in order to settle criminal and civil accusations of improperly promoting the using of a certain anti-psychotic drug, Resperdal, to the elderly (with dementia) and to children (with disorders) -- regardless of the fact that the drug may have adverse affects for anyone other than the F.D.A approve schizophrenia patients. Adverse affect, you say? Yes, they include an increased chance for stroke in the elderly, and breast growth in young boys. Weird, right?
Our US Legislature may seem pretty weak with recent events (remember that Government Shutdown?)...
but at least our judicial system is making headway. J&J isn't the only major business being cracked down for their questionable promotion of possibly harmful drugs. Among that number are Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Abbott, just to name a few. It's about time some regulation is put into practice on pharmaceutical companies that hold so much...BIOLOGICAL control. I mean, all we have to determine of a vitamin pill will be good for us, is what they shove on to the label. I'm a skeptic, there, I wrote it.
“As a group, [we've]...sent a message to the pharmaceutical industry that this kind of widespread fraud and disregard for F.D.A. regulations isn’t going to be tolerated." Well said, Mr. David Stone, a winning lawyer from the suit.
When you're eating a multi-vitamin, taking cold medicine, an antidepressant, give another thought as to where that medicine came from. It might serve you well to be a skeptic, who knows...
when you grab that bottle of J&J lotion, remember, ThE lOtIoN iS a LiE!
I like how you brought in the Resident Evil series. Are you referring to how some sort of medicine turned the people into zombies or something else? It has been years since I have even seen a resident evil game so I might be a little rusty. But anyway, you make several points of merit. It is good to know that our judicial system is still you know, functioning.
ReplyDeleteI was referring to one of the main antagonist of the series, Umbrella Corporation. They were a major conglomerate that had their fingers in just about every market, including pharmaceuticals. They have a benevolent public appearance, but had their crazy hidden darkside: private armies, genetic human experimentation, y'know, the works.
DeleteIt is interesting indeed that corporate malfeasance has become such a part of the wider culture. Perhaps the culture is just responding to events rather than events responding to culture, but it would seem like this increased consciousness should have some effect on our public policy. Are games and other representations of such behavior actually desensitizing the public in a way?
ReplyDeleteHey Steven, I agree it's important to be a skeptic of these large Co.'s. It is scary what can go on in these companies.
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