Chantix Caused Severe Behavior Changes, New Lawsuit Alleges

It is claimed in the Chantix lawsuit that after she began taking the smoking cessation drug the plaintiff began to experience negative side effects that have previously been associated with the use of Chantix. Some of these Chantix side effects that the plaintiff experienced were aggressive behavior, violent behavior, feelings of panic, generalized anxiety order, dysphoria, grandiosity, obsessive compulsive behavior, agoraphobia, bipolar disorder with acute psychotic episodes, visual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, as well as erratic behavior that ultimately required the Chantix lawsuit plaintiff to be admitted into the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. The plaintiff’s Chantix lawsuit attorney goes on to state that her severe depression that Chantix caused led her to try to commit suicide.

This Chantix lawsuit has also been added to the Chantix MDL being currently held in Alabama. The plaintiff is seeking compensation for a number of charges including:

* Breach of warranty
* Design defect
* Fraudulent misrepresentation
* Negligence.
* Loss of consortium
* Unjust enrichment

The Chantix lawsuit plaintiff is also seeking punitive damages for the pain and suffering she has been forced to endure due to the negative side effects Chantix has allegedly caused in her life.

Chantix Lawsuit MDL

There have been many Chantix lawsuits filed across the United States in recent years. There are a variety of Chantix side effects that each of these Chantix lawsuits have claimed including suicidal thoughts and even suicidal attempts. Because of the number of Chantix lawsuits a multidistrict litigation (MDL) was formed to help streamline the legal process. It is now being heard in the Alabama federal court.

It has been reported that there are over 2,500 Chantix lawsuits in the Chantix lawsuit MDL that has been filed against the manufacturer of the smoking cessation drug, Pfizer. It is also estimated by Chantix lawsuit lawyers that there will be at least another 2,500 Chantix lawsuits that join the Chantix lawsuit MDL in the next few months ahead.

The first Chantix lawsuit that was scheduled to go to trial in the Chantix lawsuit MDL was actually settled before they went to court. However, the drug manufacture has made no indication that they will be setting in additional Chantix lawsuits in the near future.

FDA Mandates Pfizer to Adjust Warning Label to Reflect Chantix Lawsuits

In 2009 the United States Food and Drug Administration (FD) sent an order to Pfizer that mandated them to add to the Chantix warning label provided on the drugs packaging. This additional warning was put in place to hopefully alert the medical community as well as the potential users of Chantix.  The Chantix warning label was supposed to mention many of the potential side effects that other Chantix users have experienced. Some of these side effects included the following:

* Aggressive behavior
* Depression
* Suicidal attempts
* Suicidal ideation

The FDA also went on to request that Pfizer investigate the many side effect claims of the patients experiencing psychological effects allegedly caused by Chantix through additional clinical safety trials. However, the results of these trials are not expected to be received until 2017, which will likely be of no effect on the current Chantix lawsuits as they will hopefully be resolved by that time.

Filing a Chantix Lawsuit