About Us

D.I.I.M.E. is a group of Michigan residents whose lives have been forever changed by prescription drugs we, and our doctors, were told were safe.

In 1996, then-Gov. John Engler signed a law giving the drug industry absolute immunity when its products cause harm. We are the only state in the country to give an industry such freedom to endanger the public with impunity.

 

This law has been disastrous for thousands of people like us-people who took drugs like Vioxx, Rezulin, fen-phen and Bextra, all of which were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. These drugs, and others, were later pulled from the market due to their links with health problems like hypertension, stroke, liver failure and cardiac failure.

 

Yet those of use who have been harmed by these dangerous drugs have no voice. We are excluded from taking action against the big pharmaceutical companies that marketed drugs they knew to be harmful and then made billions while we got sick.

 

What we ask of lawmakers is simple: the repeal of Michigan's law granting the drug industry immunity, and the chance for those of us who have been harmed by prescription drugs since 1996 to hold the big prescription drug companies accountable.