In 2009, Pfizer paid $301 million settle allegations by the Justice 1. ___________
Department that company representatives marketed Geodon dosage
for unapproved uses and encouraged doctors “to prescribe the drug at
substantially more higher than approved dosages.” 2. ___________
Like all psychotropic medications, Geodon has potential side effects,
as anxiety and weight gain, and far more seriously risks, including vision 3. ___________
problem. And Ms. Vargha’s sister was also taking four other psychotropic 4. ___________
drugs, each with their own potentially damaging consequences. 5. ___________
Ms. Vargha fought for years before her sister’s dosages were increased. 6. ___________
“Why on earth would we give psychotropic medications to a population that
are already vulnerable and struggling to use their brain?” she wrote in a letter 7. ___________
to the state this year. “Why do we want to numb and dumb them more?”
Three months ago, increasingly desperate, Ms. Vargha, 56, was 8. ___________
removed her sister from the group home, and took her to her house.
When a reporter visited Ms. Vargha’s home recently, her sister was
disoriented and briefly mistook the reporter for an Iran policeman. At 9. ___________
night, she walks the hallways, speaking Persian.
“She’s getting better, she’s eating now a bit, but she doesn’t sleep,” Ms.
Vargha said. She hopes to get her sister back on her feet soon and move her
into a group apartment in Rochester.
“My sister came with so much hope to this country, America, the land
of freedom,” she said. “When she became a citizen, she put both arms up and said, ‘I love this country.’ ”
She added, “I want her to experience that she believed in.” 10. __________
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