On September 2, 2009
Judge Revisits Cephalon’s Off-Label Madness: Actiq Is “an ER on a Stick!”
Cephalon successfully persuaded a federal judge in Delaware to dismiss a derivative suit filed by shareholder Jerald King, but her ruling describes a fascinating timeline of wrongdoing at the company. At one point, sales reps were promoting Actiq, a fentanyl painkiller apporved only for cancer patients, for migraine sufferers, using the line that the product was “An ER on a stick.”
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