In 2009, Pfizer paid $301 million settle allegations by the Justice 1. ___________

Department that company representatives marketed Geodon dosage

for unapproved uses and encouraged doctors “to prescribe the drug at

substantially more higher than approved dosages.”   2. ___________

Like all psychotropic medications, Geodon has potential side effects,

as anxiety and weight gain, and far more seriously risks, including vision 3. ___________

problem. And Ms. Vargha’s sister was also taking four other psychotropic 4. ___________

drugs, each with their own potentially damaging consequences.    5. ___________

Ms. Vargha fought for years before her sister’s dosages were increased.   6. ___________

“Why on earth would we give psychotropic medications to a population that

are already vulnerable and struggling to use their brain?” she wrote in a letter 7. ___________

to the state this year. “Why do we want to numb and dumb them more?”

Three months ago, increasingly desperate, Ms. Vargha, 56, was            8. ___________

 removed her sister from the group home, and took her to her house.

When a reporter visited Ms. Vargha’s home recently, her sister was

disoriented and briefly mistook the reporter for an Iran policeman. At       9. ___________

night, she walks the hallways, speaking Persian.

“She’s getting better, she’s eating now a bit, but she doesn’t sleep,” Ms.

Vargha said. She hopes to get her sister back on her feet soon and move her

into a group apartment in Rochester.

“My sister came with so much hope to this country, America, the land

of freedom,” she said. “When she became a citizen, she put both arms up and said, ‘I love this country.’ ”

She added, “I want her to experience that she believed in.”                10. __________
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