On March 27, 2006 NewsWeek met with me and my client Janet Makinen to interview us regarding the Ambien Class Action I filed February, 2006. I filed that action to save consumers' lives from the dangers of sleep walking, sleep driving and suicides occurring from Ambien as alleged in the class action complaint. I was the only attorney with the guts to publicize that Ambien created "Ambien Zombies" (a term I created).

This is the NewsWeek photo taken in Philadelphia.   I was there because my mother was in a Philadelphia Hospital in surgery that very moment as a result of her being a victim to prescription drug addiction. She went into a coma tha day because of the shock to her body from all the drugs her doctors pumped her up with and they created diagnoses to literally become her drug dealer .  The doctors over prescribed tons of prescriptions for  xanax, librium, valium, lithium, resperdol, seraquel and more.  It's no secret that some doctors make money by using people like my mom as perennial patients for a stream of income and insurance fraud, billing for what they never should bill in the first place...putting people's lives at risk for durgs they do not need.

I fought against dangerous pharmaceuticals because of my real life drama of living with a prescription addicted mother since I was a child. I deal with the nightmare of watching my mother, a beautiful Liz Taylor look alike, turn into a 200 pound babbling junkie who feared leaving her bedroom for years because doctors dolled her pills like candy.

The Ambien case brought me some vindication because I proved Ambien was dangerous exactly as my complaint alleged, and the FDA agreed with me  In March, 2007, the FDA ordered the exact warnings I demanded for all sleep prescription medications. I worked that case every day of my life for a year, got the warnings and I did not receive a penney for my work.  I knew I would never make money from the case and told my Plaintiff, Janet Maikenen, there would be no money. It was never about money for me--it was about saving lives. Incredibly, Janet told me to keep fighting because we're doing a "mitzvah".  And so we did.

I was able to save the lives of millions of consumers for my work. to this day I receive thank you letters and commendations for courageously taking on big pharma Sanofi Aventis and the FDA.  I saved alot of lives, but my mother died within a week of this picture. Her last words before she went into a coma were "Give me my candy. (xanax)"  My last word to her were "I love you, Mom."

I had to pull the plug after 2 weeks of her coma as infections started.  The nightmare was over for her, finally.
The doctors who killed my mother still practiced after her death.