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N E W S & Commentary
Exposed: Harvard Shrink Gets Rich Labeling Kids Bipolar
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. 2008/06/18
Meet the man who got rich by popularizing bipolar disorder for children. Congressional investigators and the NY Times expose the scandal.
Survey suggests U.S. research misconduct is common
Reuters.com 2008/06/18
Study results have been warped by the influence of pharmaceutical industry research funding. Nine percent of scientists surveyed said they personally saw fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism.
NARPA News
News from Parents Against TeenScreen - E-mail - Petition - Video
You can find copies of the lawsuits States have filed here: http://www.psychsearch.net/lawsuits.html, along with newspaper articles about the lawsuits.
South Carolina Says J&J Improperly Marketed Drug
Bloomberg.com 2007/05/24
South Carolina has been added to the growing list of states that have sued antipsychotic makers. South Carolina has sued Eli Lilly (Zyprexa), Janssen (Risperdal) and AstraZeneca (Seroquel).
The new antipsychotic drugs are known as the TMAP antipsychotics - Texas Medication Algorithm (guidelines) Project. TMAP and TeenScreen were both recommended by the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. See the 2004 British Medical Journal article Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness
State plans lawsuit against drug firms Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 2007/09/22
Arkansas is planning a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, Janssen Pharmaceutica and Astra Zeneca for "improper and unlawful marketing" of anti-psychotic drugs. The drugs in question are Zyprexa, Risperdal and Seroquel. The Medicaid program of Arkansas has spent $200 million on those drugs over the last eight years and, under Arkansas' Medicaid fraud law, the state could collect three times that much.
The tally so far?
10 states have sued Eli Lilly regarding Zyprexa: Alaska, Connecticut, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, and West Virginia.
5 states have sued Janssen regarding Risperdal: Arkansas, Louisiana, Pennsylvana, South Carolina, and Texas.
3 states have sued AstraZeneca regarding Seroquel: Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.
The TRUE Cost Of Prescription Drugs!
With up to 570,000% markups, people would kill for profits like these. The women who wrote and signed this are Federal Budget Analysts in Washington, D.C.
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