Prescription drugs can save lives but with so many people living longer and with an overwhelming number of prescriptions being written each day, doctors or pharmacists can be at fault for possible injury to consumers by incorrectly dispensing or prescribing the wrong drugs. Even drugs that are perfectly safe alone can have fatal or threatening reactions when mixed with other drugs.
The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are typically responsible for evaluating, regulating, approving and monitoring the safety of prescription drugs, but in an era where claims that a "pill" can cure just about anything, millions of American consumers are also at risk for serious injury or death due to dangerous or defective prescription or over the counter drugs and supplements. Let's face it...the pharmaceutical business is a multi-billion dollar industry, and often rated as the most profitable in the world. The dangerous drugs that actually make it to the market at the benefit of the drug manufacturers' own fat pockets have many numerous unexpected health risks and even fatal side effects including birth defects, cardiac or heart attack, heart palpitations, hypertension, insomnia, memory loss, numbness in the extremities, stomach aches, stroke, tremors, and vomiting. Sadly, many necessary drug recalls only occur after numerous people have been seriously injured or killed.
If you or a loved one have been injured from the use of a dangerous or defective drug , please contact attorneys Gonzalez, Cartwright & Rivera, P.A. at (888) 888-3903 immediately. You may be entitled to compensation for your injuries or losses. Visit www.gonzalezcartwright.com for additional information.