Posted by rina on September 21, 2007, at 19:20:44
In reply to neurontin is fish oil, posted by med_empowered on September 20, 2007, at 0:35:44
The thing I don't like about this situation is the "jump on the ban wagon" theory. Now that the big man in charge has been caught with his pants down regarding the promoting of this drug, everyone, even those that is has/is working for wants to bash it. Well I say shame on you!
Neurontin, marketed by the international pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer, has been one of the most notorious examples of illegal and fraudulent marketing in the pharmaceutical industry. Yes, this is true, we know that but so are others that havn't come out yet and bet your bottom dollar, they will.
Neurontin was approved by the FDA (Federal Drug Administration) for epileptic seizures, to be used in addition to other drugs. Pfizer’s Warner-Lambert division aggressively promoted it for the treatment of many other conditions, including:
Bipolar disorder
Pain syndromes, peripheral neuropathy, and diabetic neuropathy
Treatment of epilepsy alone (as monotherapy)
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)
Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
Restless leg syndrome (RLS)
Trigeminal neuralgia
Post-hepatic neuralgia (PHN)
Essential tremor periodic limb movement
Migraine
Drug and alcohol withdrawal seizures
After federal prosecution, Warner-Lambert agreed in 2004 to pay $430 million for its illegal and fraudulent promotions of Neurontin. This was only a miniscule portion of the profits the company collected from its illegal promotion of its blockbuster drug.
Warner-Lambert then faced several civil lawsuits filed on behalf of people who suffered adverse side effects to Neurontin but to simply say all of a sudden it's a snake oil? C'mon we'll let's think about that for a quick moment. Given Dr. Richard Kunin's 1989 analysis it appears that the Chinese snake oil made from Chinese water snakes is very high in EPA.
The substance was known to be a pain reliever, and the Chinese snake oil products contain up to 4% of it. So,I guess from a purely pharmacochemical perspective, it is likely that the genuine Chinese snake oil is not fraudulent, at least for its intended purpose after all so for all those neurontin takers, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Just one babblers opinion.
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