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Pfizer is being sued in Washington State for allegedly illegally promoting the epilepsy medication Neurontin for off-label use. 
 
The suit was filed by the family of a woman who committed suicide after taking Neurontin for pain relief. 
 
The only approved use of Neurontin is for seizures, but it has been prescribed for a wide variety of conditions including pain relief, anxiety, phobias, and migraine. 
 
It is legal for doctors to prescribe drugs as such, but illegal for pharmaceutical companies to market such uses. 
 
Neurontin has been blamed for hundreds of suicides, and sparked dozens of lawsuits.

Lawsuit claims drug maker liable for woman's suicide

Yakima Herald-Republic - 6/24/2006 4:44 AM

A controversial anti-seizure medication blamed for causing hundreds of suicides around the country is the target of a new lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Yakima.
 
The lawsuit, filed Thursday, blames the makers of Neurontin for the June 2003 suicide of Ricka Leah Westfall, a 45-year-old Walla Walla woman, who had been taking the drug for pain.
 
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