Swiss-based Roche Pharmaceuticals has long known that its acne medication Accutane was a defective drug, but Roche was prepared to pay lawsuit damages in the millions for a drug whose sales were earning it billions. If that meant victims had to suffer serious bowel diseases and perhaps have their colon removed, Roche could live with that. After all, it was getting rich.
Roche began selling Accutane in 1982, and the prescription drug, taken orally, quickly became popular. By the year 2000, Roche was selling its defective drug to 13 million customers worldwide, including five million in America alone. From them, Roche made profits -- not revenues, but profits -- of $1.2 billion that year.
In fact, prior to that, it’s believed Roche made as much as $3 billion in profits in a single year selling Accutane. And even when Roche’s 20-year patent for Accutane expired in 2002 and generic Accutane products competed, Roche still managed to make up to $1.7 billion per year selling its defective drug to innocent and unsuspecting users.
Now Roche is losing courtroom battles in Accutane lawsuits and is being forced to pay millions of dollars in damages to injured customers. For them, serious digestive disorders such as Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis are a lifelong price to pay. For Roche, millions compared to billions is a small price to pay, given its monstrous Accutane profits over the decades. (Roche discontinued selling Accutane in 2009, though generic Accutane Sotret, Claravis and Amnesteem continues to be sold by other manufacturers.)
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