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GSK to Pay $3B For Illegal Marketing of Avandia, Paxil, Wellbutrin July 3, 2012 Ricky Allen Add Your Comments Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve federal criminal and civil charges stemming from the illegal marketing and promotion of some of their top selling medications, including Avandia, Paxil and Wellbutrin. Under the terms of the deal reached with the U.S. Department of Justice, which represents the largest settlement for healthcare fraud in U.S. history, Glaxo will pay a total of $1 billion to resolve criminal charges, including a fine of $956,814,400, and another $2 billion to resolve civil claims under the federal government’s False Claims Act. The settlement stems from a whistleblower lawsuit originally brought by four employees of the company, who will be entitled to recover a portion of the civil settlement obtained under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act of 1863. Learn More About Whistleblower Lawsuits Learn More SEE IF YOU QUALIFY FOR COMPENSATION Learn More About Whistleblower Lawsuits Learn More SEE IF YOU QUALIFY FOR COMPENSATION According to the claim, GlaxoSmithKline illegally promoted their blockbuster antidepressant drug Paxil for treating depression in children from April 1998 to August 2003. However, the FDA had not approved it for use by anyone under the age of 18. The drug maker also promoted another of their antidepressants, Wellbutrin, from January 1999 to December 2003, for weight loss and the treatment of sexual dysfunction, as well as for substance addictions and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, although the medication was only approved for treatment of major depressive disorder. The settlement also resolves claims involving the controversial diabetes drug Avandia, which GlaxoSmithKline was accused of trying to secretly market for uses other than what it was approved for. The DOJ began investigating GSK in 2004, for both off-label marketing and Medicaid fraud. In 2009, Pfizer reached a similar settlement with the U.S. government, agreeing to pay $2.9 billion for illegally marketing a number of drugs, in what was the largest healthcare fraud settlement until this Glaxo deal was reached. Although the fines and settlements are designed to deter pharmaceutical companies from placing their desire for profits before consumer safety, critics have suggested that such payments, as well as settlements paid to resolve product liability lawsuits, have become just another cost of doing business for pharmaceutical companies. Critics have called for fines to be larger and for corporate executives to face actual jail time over illegal business decisions. 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We are waiting on glaskosmith to make a decsion its been a very ruff road dealing with a child born with heat problems I wish me and my daughter will get a phone call saying that they have an offer…if the doctor I had did not put me on paxil while I was pregnet none of this would have happend…i just wish the manifacture was in my shoes…please im praying for that right phone call we deserve it jeananne July 4, 2012 my mother took avandia for years until they took it off of the market she developed congestive heart failure and died a few years later from a heart attack she was able to overcome breast cancer and it just bothers me that she was so strong to get through that and because i feel of a drug she left us way too soon she has missed alot of her families ordeals new great grandchidren and not a day goes by that i dont think of her she is missed so much and was usch a strong woman terri July 3, 2012 …paying fines/settlements/lawsuits… just another cost of doing business?…really? 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