Medication A Danger to Children and Teens

Right now, there is a pretty significant trend of medicating, often overmedicating, children. The danger of overmedicating children is that certain drugs can potentially have negative effects on their development. Drugs can alter a child's ability to grow, can negatively effect their energy level and can give a child an unhealthy emotional outlook.

Destructive Antidepressants - Paxil and Others

Paxil and other drugs like it are frequently prescribed to young people for depression and other conditions. These drugs, in some cases, have proven to be dangerous, as well. If your child was prescribed these drugs, or others like them, and suffered side effects that were dangerous or extremely painful or that caused mental anguish, speak to a doctor immediately. After seeking medical care, consider speaking with a defective product attorney. A good product liability attorney might be able to give you personal injury information relating to products that could help you determine whether or not you want to file a lawsuit.

Harmful Acne Medication - Accutane Recall

Accutane was an anti-acne medication that was popular in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. It was withdrawn from the market because it was shown to have serious side effects. The side effects included causing Crohn's disease and irritable bowel syndrome. Many of the people prescribed this drug, predictably, were young people struggling with severe cases of acne. This is but one example of a drug that was prescribed to young people frequently that turned out to be very dangerous.

Filing a Lawsuit

If you meet with an attorney, they'll want to know what kind of drug your child was given and what the effects were. In some cases, you may well find that there are already plenty of lawsuits in process over the same drug. If this is the case, the attorney may want to handle your case differently than if it was just you and your child that were affected.

The attorney may or may not take your case. If they don't believe that you have a chance of winning, they're not going to encourage you to spend money trying to pursue a futile lawsuit. In fact, attorneys that work on contingency don't even get paid unless they win their claims, so there's no reason for you to worry about them wanting to take your claim if they don't feel that you have a strong case.

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