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Bartz D, Dobbyn T
UPDATE 1-King unit to pay $42.5 mln over Kadian claims
Reuters 2010 Mar 6
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1611445520100316


Abstract:

  • Alpharma settlement resolves kickback allegations
  • Case involved inducements to prescribe pain drug Kadian


Full text:

Alpharma Inc, a unit of King Pharmaceuticals (KG.N), has agreed to pay $42.5 million to resolve allegations that it gave kickbacks to doctors to prescribe the pain drug Kadian and misrepresented its safety and effectiveness, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Kadian, which is based on morphine, is used to treat chronic moderate to severe pain.

“All consumers have the right to know that their health care provider’s judgment about drugs they should take has not been undermined by misinformation or kickbacks from pharmaceutical manufacturers,” Tony West, a Justice Department assistant attorney general, said in a statement.

The settlement resolves actions committed between Jan. 1, 2000 and Dec. 29, 2008.

Debra Parks, who first made the allegation in 2006, will receive $5.33 million of the settlement under whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. The federal government and the states involved in the suit will split the remainder.

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909