CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Merck & Co., Eli Lilly And Company, Rofecoxib

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1300
• Professor: Steven Bittle

Document Summary

Canadian alcohol & drug use monitoring system (2009) Telephone survey with 12,000 canadians aged 15+ concerning substance use. 77% used alcohol in past year, 11% cannabis, <2% cocaine, <1% ecstasy. Harms cause by legal drugs/pharmaceuical industry (big money, big business) Eli lily introduced a faulty arthriis drug in the us in the 1980s responsible for 28 deaths in. Europe and links to 49 deaths in the u. s: they earned over 3 billion from the drug but were charged way less. Bolar pharmaceuical sold adulterated and mislabelled drugs in the 1980s: made over 100 billion but were charged 10 billion only. Richardson-merrell"s cholesterol drug in the 1960s produced serious health problems. Merck & co. minimized risk of death in paients taking its painkiller, vioxx (2004: paid ghost writers to say that the drug was safe . Rate of cannabis related ofences rose by 88% between 1991 and 2007. In 2006-2007 there were 25,000 cases tried in canada"s courts for drugs.