Houston Drug Litigation Attorney

Legal Action for Victims of Adverse Drug Reactions and Injury

In America today drugs and medicines are frequently at the center of medical malpractice and product liability lawsuits. This is not surprising when you learn that pharmaceutical drug manufacturers spend $22 billion a year in marketing just to doctors to increase sales and so prescriptions written for their drugs. Money spent on pharmaceutical drug advertizing direct to the consumer - you and me - increased to over $2.8 billion in 2002 and has been on the rise since. Dr. John Abramson states in his book "Overdosed America" that: "By 1999, the average American was exposed to nine drug advertisements on television every day." With this astounding push directly to your doctor and to you, is it any wonder adverse drug reactions and injuries are skyrocketing in America? When the drug you have trusted to cure you, causes side effects more injurious and deadly than the conditions they were designed to treat, where do you turn? In Texas, a Houston personal injury attorney can help fight for your right to recover from all responsible parties.

Dangerous and Defective Drug Injury Lawyer in Houston

Manufacturers of drugs and medicines are legally bound to appropriately test their products before release on the market. Whether the drug was ultimately licensed by the FDA has no bearing on a manufacturer's liability to an injured person when adverse reactions cause physical or mental injury or death. Our firm has recovered millions for clients who have suffered from these dangerous and defective products.

With almost all medical products, there is an intermediary between the drug manufacturer and the user. The doctor who prescribes the drug, the nurse who instructs you on its use, or the pharmacist who fills the prescription, all have a duty to protect your health. Instances of medical malpractice can be traced to negligent drug treatment. For instance, misdiagnosis of your condition can occur when your doctor simply prescribes the latest pharmaceutical drug, instead of listening to you and conducting a full battery of tests. An emergency error or pharmacy error is no less dangerous when the wrong drug or a defective drug is used. Use of many of these chemical preparations can cause more debilitating and deadly injury than the original illness or injury for which they were prescribed.

Contact a Houston drug litigation attorney today if you or a loved one has been the victim medical malpractice or product liability involving dangerous and defective drugs.