Health Supreme Update: Neurontin Suicides: FDA Still Turning A Deaf Ear Charges Rep Hinchey

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> Health Supreme Update: Neurontin Suicides:

> FDA Still Turning A Deaf Ear Charges Rep Hinchey

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> Health Supreme Update: Neurontin Suicides: FDA

> Still Turning A Deaf Ear Charges Rep Hinchey

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> October 11, 2004

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> Maurice Hinchey, Representative of the 22nd

> Congressional

> District of New York is calling for a thorough

> examination of

> the link between Neurontin, an anti-epilepsy

> drug that has been

> made a block-buster seller by off-label

> marketing, and

> suicides. The lawmaker blasted the FDA's failure

> to act in this

> matter in a letter to FDA acting Commissioner

> Lester Crawford

> dated 7 September 2004. According to a report by

> the Alliance

> for Human Research Protection, Andrew

> Finkelstein, of the New

> York Law firm Finkelstein & Partners

> " knew of 160

> Americans who, having never attempted any

> form of suicide

> before taking Neurontin, committed suicide while

> on the drug,

> as well as over two thousand (2,000)

> Americans...

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