Here are a couple of background pieces on recent prosecutions against Big Pharma that resulted in record civil and criminal fines that did not even dent the enormous profits generated by illegal sales tactics pushing doctors to prescribe off-label uses for dangerous drugs.
Pfizer Broke the Law by Promoting Drugs for Unapproved Use
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a4yV1nYxCGoA&pos=10
A Public Citizen report on Johnson & Johnson's settlement for bribing doctors to prescribe dangerous off-label uses for one of its drugs.
Crime in the Pharma Suites
http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=4360
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