How To Stop Pharma Drug Crimes - Jail Time For Executives

March 22, 2010

_How To Stop Pharma Drug Crimes - Jail Time For Executives _

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Across the United States, pharmaceutical companies have pleaded guilty to

criminal charges or paid penalties in civil cases when the Justice

Department finds that they deceptively marketed drugs for unapproved uses,

putting

millions of people at risk of chest infections, heart attacks, suicidal

impulses or death. Rather than being tried for their crimes, rogue corporate

giants in the pharmaceutical industry are being subsidized and the financial

industry (giants deemed " too big to fail " ) - is being bailed out by US

taxpayer. Pharmaceutical and medical device companies repeatedly signal they

just don't seem to care what the law says if they can find a way around it.

Unless the FDA enforces the prosecutorial provisions of the FDC; unless

Congress supports health-care fraud prosecutions; and unless the Obama

administration will prohibit taxpayer reimbursement for criminally marketed

drugs

and medical devices, rogue companies will continue to profi t from harm,

producing hazardous drugs that pose risks of disability and death.

Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP (Washington Post, Business Week)

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