A Swiss company has made billions of dollars at the expense of innocent Americans who unknowingly took defective acne drug Accutane without realizing it could cause serious, debilitating, incurable and lifelong digestive disorders.
That company is Roche, also known as Hoffman LaRoche or Roche Pharmaceuticals. Though Roche was aware that its acne treatment could cause harm, Roche peddled the defective acne medication anyway, content to reap billions of dollars in profits even though it knew many victims would wind up filing an Accutane lawsuit.
In short, Roche decided its own vast profits outweighed an individual human being’s right not to be harmed by a defective drug -- and harmed in a painful, distressing and life-changing way via an IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease.
The “I” in IBD might as well stand for “incurable,” because that’s what these diseases are. Whether Crohn’s disease (often called Crohns disease) or ulcerative colitis, these horrific Accutane side effects injuries can leave victims with continual trips to the bathroom and, in some cases, may mean they must have a surgical colon removal.
None of this misery and pain had to happen. But it did because Roche placed its own profits and greed above human beings. Wonder if Roche executives cautioned their own sons and daughters against taking the acne drug Accutane which made Roche billions?
The Swiss company sold Accutane from 1982 until 2009, when it issued an Accutane recall taking it off the market in the United States. However, it still sells Accutane in some other foreign countries. And generic Accutane remains available in the form of Claravis, Amnesteem and Sotret.
All have the powerful active ingredient Isotretinoin. In fact, it’s too powerful. Though Isotretinoin combats severe acne, it’s also been shown to cause the catastrophic bowel injuries which Accutane leaves in its wake.
Such injuries are spread across a huge pool of Accutane users over the years. In fact, Roche reportedly sold acne drug Accutane to 13 million consumers across the globe. Among them were 5 million Americans who took the acne treatment, administer orally and by prescription only.
In the year 2000 alone, Roche netted Accutane profits of $1.2 billion. By 2002 Roche was making $1.7 billion annually via sales of Accutane acne medication.
But those totals pale beside a reported $3 billion in profits which Accutane raked in during a single year of Accutane’s sales.
With all those Roche billions in profits via sales of its defective drug, can the Swiss drug manufacturer afford to pay victims for their Accutane side effect injuries? Of course it can, and an Accutane lawsuit pressed by Accutane-Lawsuit-Lawyer.com can help ensure that Roche will, indeed, pay victims for its mistakes.
The experienced national attorney service can provide you with a defective drug lawyer or Accutane injury lawyer for your state. Then Roche can be served notice that its Roche billions in profits were ill-gained, and that Accutane victims deserve compensation for their Accutane injury.
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