Posted by Dave001 on September 23, 2004, at 23:17:13
In reply to Re: please be civil, posted by AIK on September 23, 2004, at 10:49:26
> In response to Dave stating that looking for someone to sue is wrong and/or a knee jerk reaction, I would like you to consider the following analogy. A vehicle manufacturer such as GM or Ford produces thousands of vehicles a year. If they receive reports of a defect that may occur in less than 1% of a particular model that may cause personal injury they issue a recall and repair the defect on all potentially affected vehicles. If they didn't issue a recall they would be sued for neglegence for not notifying the consumer and be ordered to pay damages. Many people posting on this thread are experiencing similar severe withdrawal symptoms after taking Effexor. Unfortunately Wyeth does not acknowledge this in their product literature or inform physicans or pharmacists of these effects upon withdrawal of this drug so that they may properly counsel and inform their patients of these potential effects. The main premise of this lawsuit is to get Wyeth to educate health professionals of potential severe withdrawal and addiction to Effexor so they may pass this on to their patients so they themselves can make an informed decision to use Effexor. Withholding this information from health professionals and patients is NEGLEGENCE. It is sad that a car salesman is given more information about his product than a health professional.
>Of course, negligent behavior such as concealing information that could represent a potential health-hazard should be aggressively prosecuted. For example, if it were later discovered that a pharmaceutical company had deliberately suppressed results from preclinical studies that showed a significantly increased incidence of liver tumors compared to controls, that's negligence.
However, I don't see how that has any relation to Effexor. All drugs can have withdrawal effects, the extent of which can only be estimated after it has been used by enough people for enough time. Do you have any evidence that Wyeth has secretly withheld internal knowledge of an unusually dangerous withdrawal syndrome associated with Effexor that the rest of the world doesn't have access to?
Dave
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