Pharma Giant Looking for New Diseases to Treat with Drug Linked to Suicide

[Why Syzygy]

Pharma Giant Looking for New Diseases to Treat with Drug Linked to Suicide
By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. Posted February 17, 2009.

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But finding new diseases to justify a drug's existence is the normal way pharma operates.

Especially Lilly who agreed to pay $1.42 billion for illegal marketing of its anti-psychotic Zyprexa last month--$615 million for criminally promoting it for dementia--another $62 million to 32 states for illegal pediatric marketing and agreed to resolve Medicaid fraud investigations into "rebates" at the same time. (And how was your year?)
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Starting with the death of 19-year-old Cymbalta test subject Traci Johnson in 2004--who hanged herself in the Lilly Clinic in Indianapolis and had no history of mental problems--it has been beset by reports of baffling, rapid, unprovoked, and out of character suicides.
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At the American Academy of Pain Medicine Annual Meeting in January, Lilly presented a study by its own doctors finding Cymbalta was superior to placebo in knee pain--in keeping with its penchant to publish studies by Lilly funded and Lilly employed doctors saying Cymbalta is safe.

Cymbalta is also a good use of state and third party payer dollars say Lilly funded doctors in "Differences In Medication Adherence and Healthcare Resource Utilization Patterns: Older Versus Newer Antidepressant Agents In Patients With Depression And/Or Anxiety Disorders" in the 2008-22 CNS Drugs who are fighting the "restrictive reimbursement policies for newer antidepressants," in which pharmacy benefits managers are saying you want us to spend WHAT?
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http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/127393/pharma_giant_looking_for_new_diseases_to_treat_with_drug_linked_to_suicide/?page=entire

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. this is because the Fox is guarding the Hen House

that is what has been going on with the voting machine industry, and in other things.

Strangly, there's practically no regulation for pet foods, and we end up with
euthanized animals including cats and dogs - in our commercial dog food.

And the tobacco industry did a wonderful job of regulating itself too.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. The problem here is not the companies.

The problem is the whistleblowers and regulators and whatnot who are letting the cat out of the bag. What the public doesn't know won't hurt (corporate profits).