WYETH SUED BY TEN FAMILIES FOR EFFEXOR INDUCED SUICIDES/VIOLENCE

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WYETH SUED BY TEN FAMILIES FOR EFFEXOR INDUCED SUICIDES/VIOLENCE

 

You can go to the justiceseekers website and read the complaint.

 

http://www.justiceseekers.com/index.cfm?menuitemID=203

 

WYETH SUED BY TEN FAMILIES FOR EFFEXOR INDUCED SUICIDES/VIOLENCE

For Immediate Release

October 25, 2005

 

Ten families from across the United States have joined forces to bring

wrongful death and personal injury suits against the drug giant Wyeth

alleging that their respective family members committed impulsive acts

of violence - mostly suicides-or attempted them-shortly after taking

Wyeth's best-selling drug, Effexor.

 

The suit was filed in Federal Court in Philadelphia, near Wyeth's

corporate headquarters in Collegeville, Pa. The suit alleges that

Wyeth's drug Effexor-an antidepressant-was responsible for the deaths

of eight people and for injuries to three other teenagers. The average

length of time that the patients took the drug before their deaths was

ten days.

 

Citing Wyeth's own clinical trial data, the lawsuit also alleges that

Wyeth knew for years that hostility and self-harm were side effects of

Effexor but made a conscious decision not to warn prescribing

physicians or consumers, fearing a loss of market share in the

multi-billion dollar anti-depressant industry.

 

For over a decade, information has emerged linking antidepressant

drugs like Effexor to homicide and suicide, but Wyeth and other drug

companies shrugged it off, arguing that the suicides were caused by

the depression, not their drug. The scientific and medical data of the

connection between the SSRI's and suicide became so convincing,

however, that the Food and Drug Administration in September of 2004

ordered BLACK BOX WARNINGS regarding the causal relationship between

the drugs and adolescent and child suicides. In July of this year, the

FDA expanded the warning to encompass the increased risk that

anti-depressants pose to adults. Canada's drug regulatory agency-

Health Canada-has also required warnings regarding the suicide risks

of these drugs for all patients. Similar warnings have been required

by European agencies.

 

The families are co-represented by the Philadelphia firm of FELDMAN &

PINTO and the Houston, Texas firm of VICKERY & WALDNER. Further

information, and a copy of the lawsuit itself, can be obtained from

www.JusticeSeekers.com. The lawsuit does not seek any specific amount

in damages, but seeks a determination that Effexor causes suicide in

some patients who have never been known to be suicidal before they

took the drug and a finding regarding Wyeth's "fault" for failing to

warn about that risk. "After a Philadelphia jury determines what the

FDA has already found to exist," said Andy Vickery of the Houston

firm, "the Court can then consider whether to remand each family to

their home federal district for individual trials on specific

causation and damages." The Plaintiff families live in Florida,

Georgia, Colorado, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, California,

Wisconsin and Alaska. "Filing the initial suit in Wyeth's home town,"

said Vickery, "avoids contradictory findings and is certainly the

fairest and most economical way to proceed with these claims."

 

Relevant Links:

 

* Read the Complaint

* More Effexor information

* If your loved one killed themselves or someone else while

taking

Effexor, please contact us for a consultation regarding your family's

potential claim, by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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