Diet Supplements

  USA Today's reporting on Craze has prompted many retailers to stop selling the drug. The newspaper reported on Aug. 12 that eBay had dropped the product, adding to a list that includes Wal-Mart and Bodybuilding.com, which previously had named Craze the best new supplement for 2012.
     But in its lawsuit, Nutrition Distribution claims that side effects reported from Craze include "insomnia, depression, irritability, paranoia, hallucinations, stroke, myocardial infarction, cardiac arrhythmia and addiction."
     The complaint states: "This is a civil action arising from defendants' false advertising and blatant misrepresentations regarding its Craze pre-workout nutritional supplement which is marketed as containing a natural extract as its active ingredient, when, in fact, it contains illegal analogs to methamphetamine."

     Driven Sports was "founded by a convicted felon, Matt Cahill," the complaint states. It continues: "According to a recent USA Today article, Cahill has, over his nearly 12 year career in the nutritional supplement industry, 'continued to launch new and risky products.' Most notoriously, Cahill and his wife pled guilty in 2005 to introduction of a misbranded drug into interstate commerce, and were sentenced to 24 months in federal correctional facilities for their crimes. Shockingly, at the end of his sentence, Cahill and his wife formed DS [Driven Sports] in 2008 and began selling nutritional supplements anew. Cahill is again facing criminal charges for introducing a separate supposedly all-natural bodybuilding supplement in 2008 that prosecutors allege contains an unapproved new drug.

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