Every year, some 1.3 million Americans seek emergency medical treatment for adverse drug side effects, and close to 125,000 people die because of related health complications. Complications from dangerous drugs often require lengthy hospital stays and can have life-altering impacts. If you have been injured by a prescription medication, you deserve answers and justice. Rutter Mills dangerous drug attorneys are here to help.
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About 18 women in the US die every day from prescription painkillers.
Each year, between 7,000 and 9,000 people die from medication errors.
10% of the patients in every hospital will be part of a medication error.
Prescription Drug Injury Lawyers Can Help
Individuals whose lives are upended because of dangerous drugs have the law on their side. Pharmaceutical companies like Bayer, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson reap billions in profits every year, and like most drug makers, they set aside large sums of money to handle penalties and lawsuits that inevitably arise. If a drug manufacturer provides inadequate warnings about possible side effects, promotes the safety of a drug on fraudulent premises, or unlawfully solicits doctors to prescribe the product for “off-label” uses, they may be held liable for resulting injuries.
Adverse Events and FDA Drug Recalls
A drug can be pulled off the market voluntarily or recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for various reasons. Based on the gravity of the potential dangers, drug recalls are classified as Class I, Class II or Class III. A Class I recall is reserved for dangerous or defective medications “that could cause serious health problems or death.”
Unfortunately, drug recalls in the U.S. have been steadily increasing over the past five years. Statistics indicate that most medications are recalled because of undeclared ingredients or an “undesirable experience associated with the use of a medical product” — what the FDA calls an adverse event. Adverse events can range from chronic headaches and flu-like symptoms to kidney failure and bacterial infection. In some people, these adverse events can prove fatal.
What Are The Main Causes Of Medication Errors?
Patients being given the wrong dosage accounts for 20% of all medication errors. Injuries or death resulting from dosing errors are preventable.
Errors in the prescriber’s decision-making, such as wrong dose or wrong medication, or poor evaluation of potential interactions.
Communication errors between healthcare providers, patients, and caregivers happen when information is too complex. The elderly are most vulnerable to this type of error.
Errors at the administration stage, such as incorrect timing, dose, or route of administration can cause negative outcomes for patients.
Incorrect or inadequate documentation of a patient’s medical record can lead to a dangerous mix of medications, leading to an adverse event.
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Americans Take an Average of 4 Prescription Pills per Day
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lipid-lowering drugs, analgesics and antidepressants are the most frequently prescribed in the U.S. Over the past two decades, the rate of drug prescriptions filled by Americans has increased by nearly 85 percent. Some of these pharmaceuticals are life-saving therapies, but others have been tied to horrific side effects, debilitating injury and death. Unfortunately, drug recalls in the U.S. have been steadily increasing in recent years.
Statistics indicate most medications are recalled because of undeclared ingredients or an “undesirable experience associated with the use of a product” — what the FDA calls an adverse event. Adverse events can range from chronic headaches and flu-like symptoms to kidney failure and bacterial infection. In some people, these adverse events can prove fatal. If you’ve been injured by a prescription medication, you deserve answers and the right to pursue monetary compensation. An initial consultation with a prescription drug lawyer at Rutter Mills is free and without obligation.
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Pharmaceutical companies (“big pharma”) are under enormous pressure to get new products on the marketplace as quickly as possible, oftentimes at the expense of public safety. When clinical trials are rushed, design defects go unchecked, and medications aren’t vetted for adverse side effects, it is you – the consumer who suffers.
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We handle a wide variety of defective drug cases, including but not limited to:
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Mistakes and accidents happen, but when mistakes cost you or a loved one your future, you need legal advice.
Contact a dangerous drug injury attorney to speak about your case.
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