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There has been a lot of debate whether or not Vioxx was actually causing more harm than good in the patients that were taking it. When the drug company Merck first pulled the drug off the market the claims were that it was causing people to have strokes. But of course the drug company defended itself saying that these people had pre existing conditions that led to these strokes.

Well if that was the case, then why were doctors prescribing Vioxx to patients that had these pre existing conditions in the first place? Were the doctors presented with all of the facts about Vioxx that they needed before prescribing it? Were the doctors just being irresponsible? Did Merck do something to convince doctors to prescribe the drug anyway? These are questions that we may never know the answers to.

One thing is clear though. Merck recognized that there was a problem so they yanked the drug overnight. And now it appears that this is not all that Merck did. They may also have initiated an internal cover up. In an effort to shield the company some of the power players in the whole Vioxx fiasco were let go. At the same time Merck’s insistence that Vioxx was safe suddenly changed to being safe unless you suffer from this or that. It is just one more example of a big drug company being dishonest and causing harm to consumers.

If you have been living under a rock or something, maybe you are not familiar with the whole Vioxx debacle. In a nutshell here’s the deal: A big drug company named Merck introduced an anti-inflammatory drug called Vioxx about ten years ago. Unlike many anti-inflammatory drugs however this one did not contain steroids. It was a very ideal drug for people like me who have painful arthritis but don’t want to use drugs that have steroids in them.

And then some people died. A few people suffered from strokes and a few others had heart attacks while on the drug. Did the drug cause this? Were these people predisposed to these maladies because of things like hypertension (high blood pressure)?

Well anyway, Merck reacted to the onslaught of greedy lawyers that were beating down their doors with frivolous lawsuits by pulling the drug off the market. Well I don’t suffer from hypertension. This Vioxx proved to be a miracle drug for me. I’m not saying it was for everyone, but it was for me! I feel bad for the families of people who died, but was Vioxx the sole reason these people died? Really, there were no other factors involved? So now I am back to using the steroids that I don’t want to use.