Word: toxication
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...clients with pornographic films and prostitutes. More typical is the practice of distributing free drug samples to physicians, which the doctors then sell to patients for a profit. "It's the most effective incentive for overprescribing that I've seen," said Silverman. 'These people hand out toxic drugs as if they were popcorn...
...CLEARER TOXIC-SHOCK VERDICT
Patricia Kehm, 25, a mother of two, started using Procter & Gamble's Rely tampons on Sept. 2, 1980. Four days later she was dead. Kehm was a victim of toxic-shock syndrome, which earlier in 1980 had been linked to superabsorbent tampons like Rely. Kehm's family sued Procter & Gamble, and last week in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, they won a jury award of $300,000. The only other Rely litigation to reach trial produced a baffling jury verdict March 19 in Denver: the company was found negligent, but the victim, who survived, won no money for her illness...
When Procter & Gamble put its first tampon product into national distribution, the ads boasted, "It even absorbs the worry." But Rely tampons soon provoked frantic worry. In 1980 the federal Centers for Disease Control tied tampons to an outbreak of rare-sometimes fatal-toxic-shock syndrome. One study of a group of TSS sufferers found that 71% of them used Rely. Though the product had captured 20% of the market, the company recalled it. Then came the lawsuits-400 against Procter & Gamble, 100 or so against four other manufacturers. Last week plaintiffs and defendants in those cases were watching closely...
Though the jurors apparently decided it did not, lawyers representing women in other TSS cases could take satisfaction from the jury's negligence verdict. It did not explicitly find that Rely caused toxic shock. But Microbiologist Philip Tierno of New York University Medical Center clearly bolstered the plaintiffs case with his testimony that the cellulose chips in Rely "can provide the sole nutrient" to encourage the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium sometimes present in the vagina. The bacteria, in turn, generate poisonous waste products, which are circulated by the blood...