Off label use of prescription drugs is when a drug is used for something not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. How does this happen? Drug companies get a drug approved for use based on studies that are reviewed by the FDA. Once the drug is on the market, they use their salespeople to promote the drug for uses that were never reviewed by the FDA,  and often have never been studied. It’s not illegal for a doctor to prescribe a drug “off label”, and many doctors rely on big pharmaceutical companies to provide accurate, truthful information about other uses of their drugs. Whoops. Since May 2004, Pfizer, Bristo-Myers Squibb Co., Eli Lilly & Co. and four other drug companies have paid a total of $7 billion in fines and penalties for marketing medicines for unapproved uses – in some cases these unapproved uses have caused unnecessary sickness and deaths -but significant profits.  For more information about this practice and the incredible criminal fines paid by drug companies, click here.  Our office has successfully made claims for consumers in Tennessee and other states against drug companies for the Dalkon Shield, Breast Implants,  Fen-Phen, Vioxx, Rezulin, and Paxil.

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