A "bad drug" is a medication that causes serious, unexpected side effects or injuries that were not properly disclosed to patients or healthcare providers when the drug was prescribed. These are typically prescription medications that were approved by the FDA but later discovered to have dangerous side effects that the manufacturer either knew about and failed to warn people, or should have known about through proper testing. Bad drugs can cause anything from organ damage and heart problems to birth defects and increased risk of suicide, often affecting thousands of people before the dangers become widely known.
When people are injured by a bad drug, they may be able to file personal injury lawsuits against the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the medication. These cases often become large class action lawsuits where hundreds or thousands of injured patients join together to sue the drug maker for failing to adequately test their product or warn about serious risks. The pharmaceutical company can be held responsible for medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, and other damages caused by their defective medication, even if doctors properly prescribed the drug and patients took it exactly as directed.
