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Federal Preemption Part III - Who are the players for you and for big business?

By Steve Lombardi

- Consumer Advocate Groups concerning Federal Preemption –

Americans For Drug & Device Accountability - AMERICANS FOR DRUG AND DEVICE ACCOUNTABILITY is a bi-partisan coalition of health-care professionals, patient advocates, business people, and concerned citizens. Our goal is simple: To spread the word about a vitally important issue. We hope some of you will join us in that effort.

We have come together to urge Congress to guarantee the right to a day in court if a person is harmed or killed by an FDA-approved product. Specifically, we stand against the policy of FDA preemption.

The ADDA provides a sample letter for you to send to your Congress person about individual rights versus corporate profits and which is more important.

Drug Injury Watch- Prescription druge side effects news and information by Tom Lamb. Also provides a list of lawsuits filed concerning prescription drugs.

American Association for Justice- Today, AAJ is a broad-based, international coalition of attorneys, law professors, paralegals, and law students. As the world's largest trial bar, AAJ promotes justice and fairness for injured persons, safeguards victims' rights--particularly the right to trial by jury--and strengthens the civil justice system through education and disclosure of information critical to public health and safety. With more than 56,000 members worldwide, and a network of U.S. and Canadian affiliates involved in diverse areas of trial advocacy, AAJ provides lawyers with the information and professional assistance needed to serve clients successfully and protect the democratic values inherent in the civil justice system.

Paxil Harms Children– “This web site was developed with the intention of bringing awareness to ordinary Canadians, and the general public worldwide, the dangers of the prescription drug Paxil ( paroxetine HCL ), as it is marketed and known in Canada, and as Seroxat in the United Kingdom (UK), by the GlaxoSmithKline company (GSK). This site is especially dedicated, in bringing attention to the deaths and damage that Paxil has caused, and continues to cause children, adolescents and young adults.”

The Paxil Protest Website

This site had disappeared off the internet. It has magically appeared again and is full of information regarding medications, articles, excellent links. For anyone wishing to understand how one feels coming off of paxil, the 'Prisoner Of Paxil" journal lays it out.

Big Pharma Victim

This website was put together to inform mothers of the possibilities of damage caused to a child in the womb. Her son was born with a congenital heart defect due to taking paxil in the first three months of pregnancy.

Her son Manie had open heart surgery when he was 8 days old, that lasted 13 long hours. Today Manie continue’s to struggle with medical problems, and surgery, because the dangers of taking paxil were not made available to parents.

SSRI Stories

This website is a collection of 2100+ news stories with the full media article available, mainly criminal in nature, that have appeared in the media or that were part of FDA testimony in either 1991, 2004 or 2006, in which antidepressants are mentioned.

Pharmalot

Pharmalot is a blog run by Ed Silverman. Ed Silverman is a prize-winning journalist who has covered the pharmaceutical industry for The Star-Ledger of New Jersey for the past 12 years. He closely follows a variety of topics of concern to those who work for, and with, pharmaceutical manufacturers. Topics touched are drug development; mergers and acquisitions; regulatory oversight; safety and pricing controversies, and marketing issues.

Psychiatric Drug Facts

This website exposes how psychiatric drugs really work, adverse drug effects on the brain and mind, the role of the FDA, and drug company practices.

An Interview with Paxil Lawyer Karen Barth Menzies

Karen Barth Menzies is a partner of the Los Angeles based law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Goldman & Menzies and heads the firm's Pharmaceutical Antidepressant Litigation Department. April 2007

Paxil Five-Year Litigation History - By Evelyn Pringle

Suicide Rates as a Public Relations Tool (Shyness a Pathology) - By Alliance For Human Research Protection

- Federal Preemption Big Business Cheerleaders –

U.S. Chamber of Commerce, regularly enters litigation as a friend of big business, trampling on the rights of common working citizens who have been injured by corporate America. Their slogan is “Fighting For Your Business”, which is their way of admitting they don’t care how what they or corporate America does might injury you or destroy your economic way of life.

Institute of Legal Reform- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s cousin for taking away citizen rights to protect big business profits.

- CONCLUSION -

So what is wrong with this picture of how federal preemption is being used? Many times federal preemption is a defense that acts as a complete bar from you, the injured consumer, seeking the right to ask a jury for compensation for injuries that last a lifetime and cause havoc on your economic lifestyle. Like Dennis Quaid is quoted as saying federal laws that protect the actions of large corporations and prohibit mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents and infants from seeking to hold them responsible, takes away accountability and places the economic burden on the shoulders of those who are least able to pay the freight. The economic consequences of a personal injury caused by faulty products and product labeling passes the burden on to tax payers in the form of disability from the Social Security Administration; that in years to come will be overburdened with baby boomer payments. While Corporate American hands out multi-million dollar bonuses to it’s CEO’s, you and I get to do our own thing with how to live after suffering a stroke caused by a defective product or warning.

I will conclude today by saying that if you have complete faith in the products you use, both domestic and foreign manufactured, then you need not be concerned with federal preemption. On the other hand if product safety is a concern for you and your family then this is an area that should be of importance to you.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Steve Lombardi

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on October 05, 2008 (boomark / email).