{"id":159,"date":"2012-08-30T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T21:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2012-08-30T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T21:50:38","slug":"187-million-multi-state-drug-settlement-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"$187 million multi-state drug settlement reached"},"content":{"rendered":"

Janssen Pharmaceuticals to pay record amount, says state Attorney General
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State Attorney General Linda Kelly announced a record multi-state settlement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals today.<\/p><\/div>\n

HARRISBURG \u2013 Pennsylvania has joined\u00a0 36 other attorneys general in the largest multi-state consumer protection settlement to be reached with a pharmaceutical company, Attorney General Linda Kelly announced today.<\/p>\n

Kelly said the record $187,047,439.00 settlement was reached with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, over allegations that Janssen improperly marketed the atypical antipsychotic drugs Risperdal, Risperdal Consta, Risperdal M-Tab and Invega.<\/p>\n

Risperdal is a medication commonly used to treat mental illnesses including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and irritability associated with autism. The drug has a number of serious side effects including; hyperglycemia, diabetes, pancreatitis, a heightened risk of neurological problems, cardiovascular complications and weight gain.<\/p>\n

According to the states, Janssen promoted Risperdal for off-label uses to both geriatric and pediatric populations and specifically targeted nursing home patients for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, dementia, depression, and anxiety.\u00a0 These uses were not FDA-approved nor shown to be safe and effective. Federal law prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturers from promoting their products for off-label uses.<\/p>\n

After an extensive four-year investigation, Janssen agrees to change how it promotes and markets atypical antipsychotics and to stop the false, misleading and deceptive promotion of the drugs.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Janssen agreed to a number of condition for five years, including disclosing the risks in the FDA\u2019s black-boxed warnings for atypical antipsychotics in Janssen\u2019s promotional materials and implementing policies to ensure that financial incentives are not given to marketing and sales personnel that encourage or reward off-label marketing.<\/p>\n

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Janssen Pharmaceuticals to pay record amount, says state Attorney General HARRISBURG \u2013 Pennsylvania has joined\u00a0 36 other attorneys general in the largest multi-state consumer protection settlement to be reached with a pharmaceutical company, Attorney General Linda Kelly announced today. Kelly said the record $187,047,439.00 settlement was reached with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-janssen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}