Widow Sues After Husband's Suicide – Side Effects?

There seems to be a flurry of lawsuits of late, related to unknown or somewhat known psychological side effects from selected pharma products, and this is one more on the way. I am sure there’s much more research to go on, but how many of the products have these effects and what percentage of patients are affected? Yesterday, there was the news about the banker on Wall Street having issues with compulsive gambling as a result of taking Mirapex.

Issues as such may continue on as well as the research to see what can be determined, but in the meantime, each potential side effect has to be made aware to the consumer. Somewhere along the line there has to be some determination factor and balance enter the picture, and it makes for the question of how many drugs have these side effects and will there be more revolutions upcoming? Does everyone go to court, and is the the model for the future to resolve? Just some questions that come to mind and if it continues to grow will we someday have to be signing a release to take a certain medication prescribed for a treatment plan? BD

In Pfizer’s case, the suit over the smoking-cessation drug Chantix was filed by the widow of a man who shot himself to death in January, Dow Jones Newswires reports. He’d started using Chantix in late October 2007, according to the suit, filed by Linda Collins of Gas City, Ind.