Living With a Prescription Drug Junkie Mother Compelled Me To Fight Big Pharma and Win
Posted: Saturday, October 08, 2011
by Susan Chana Lask Esq
Law Offices of Susan Chana Lask
On March 27, 2006 Newsweek met with me and my client Janet Makinen to interview us regarding the Ambien Class Action I filed February, 2006 to save consumers' lives from the dangers of sleep walking, sleep driving and suicides occurring from Ambien as alleged in the class action complaint. I was the only attorney with the guts to publicize that Ambien created "Ambien Zombies" (a term I created).
This is the Newsweek photo taken in Philadelphia where I was that day because my mother was in a Philadelphia Hospital in surgery that very moment as a result of her being a victim to prescription drug addiction. You would never know i was literally dying inside knowing my 74 year old mother was in surgery and I knew she wouldn't make it because of the condition she was in-her body was ravaged from a life of prescription drugs overdosed to her from doctors since the '60's. She went into a coma because of the shock to her body from all the drugs her doctors pumped her up with by creating diagnoses to literally become her drug dealer to write tons of prescriptions to xanax, librium, valium, lithium, resperdol, seraquel and more. It's no secret those doctors make money by using people like my mom as perennial patients for a stream of income.I fought against dangerous pharmaceuticals because of my real life drama of living with a prescription addicted mother since I was a child, and having to deal with the nightmare of watching my mother who was a beautiful Liz Taylor look alike turn into a 200 pound babbling junkie who feared leaving her bedroom for years because doctors dolled her pills like candy.
The Ambien case brought me some vindication as I proved Ambien was dangerous as my complaint alleged, and the FDA agreed and ordered the exact warnings I demanded. I worked that case every day of my life for a year, and in exactly a year the FDA agreed with me.
I was able to save the lives of millions of consumers for my work, and to this day I receive thank you letters and commendations for courageously taking on big pharma Sanofi Aventis and the FDA. I saved alot of lives, but my mother died within a week of this picture. Her last words before she went into a coma were "Give me my candy." (xanax)
I had to pull the plug after 2 weeks of her coma as infections started.
The doctors who overprescribed medications to my mother and let her die withoit any dignity are still alive.
http://www.appellate-brief.com/practice/federal-litigation/pharmaceutical.html
http://www.appellate-brief.com/blog/entry/the-ambien-newsweek-story.html
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