According to a letter issued to doctors from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), about two dozen drugs used to control seizures and psychiatric disorders have been linked to self-inflicted personal injury or wrongful death.
Our San Diego personal injury attorneys know how dangerous some drugs can be, and we urge physicians to be careful which drugs they prescribe to their patients because of the product liabilities associated with each medication. Psychiatric drugs can be very helpful in some patients, but in others, there can be no effect, or in the worst cases … negative effects.
GlaxoSmithKline’s Lamictal, Johnson & Johnson’s Topamax and Pfizer’s Lyrica were all listed as drugs that could potentially increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior. These personal injuries are sometimes caused by akathesia, where a person disassociates from reality. The FDA’s letter to the doctors of America cautioned that several medications might drive an individual to cause their own wrongful death. This is a preventative warning from the FDA, who said that the heightened risk of experiencing a self-caused fatal accident from using these medications is fairly small.
An analysis from the agency showed an additional two injured persons per 1,000 would have suicidal thoughts and behaviors when taking the drugs. Still, is this too much of a risk? What happens if a person takes this drug and gets behind the wheel of a car, only to have suicidal thoughts, which causes them to pull into on-coming traffic and the result is a three car fatal auto accident?
Our personal injury lawyers in San Diego believe physicians and drug companies should do all they can to make sure that their products do not have harmful physical or emotional side effects. No drug can be full proof, and that is why doctors need to be responsible when prescribing these medications.
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About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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