"How many people knew about this? How many people were in on IT? And How long will these corporate whoremasters get away with these potentially murderous crimes which were committed for the profit and money and made off of the suffering of other people? How long will the "joke" go on?"
****The only way to get big companies like these to change their behavior is to make the individuals responsible feel the heat.
An even more basic issue is why the advertising and marketing of prescription drugs is allowed at all, when consumers can’t buy them and shouldn’t be influencing doctor’s decisions anyway. Before 1997, the Food and Drug Administration banned such advertising on TV and radio. That ban should be resurrected. (Taken from Common Dreams article by Robert Reich titled How NOT to Get Big Pharma To Chnage It's Ways)
The Glaxo case is the latest and biggest in a series of Justice Department prosecutions of Big Pharma for illegal marketing prescription drugs. In May, Abbott Laboratories settled for $1.6 billion over its wrongful marketing of an antipsychotic. And an agreement with Johnson & Johnson is said to be imminent over its marketing of another antipsychotic, which could result in a fine of as much as $2 billion.