Pharmaceutical Industry's Criminal Fraud Settlements

Between 1991-2010, there were 165 criminal and/or civil settlements by major pharmaceutical companies comprising of $19.8 billion in penalties. Four of the world's largest drug companies--GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Schering-Plough--accounted for 53% ($10.5 billion) of penalties during these two decades.
Read article on the website of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (USA)

US Department of Justice is probing corruption in the pharmaceutical industry

The US Department of Justice is scrutinising payments by leading pharmaceuticals companies for hospitality, consultants, licensing agreements and charitable donations in markets around the world as part of a wide-ranging corruption probe. GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Eli Lilly, among others, have disclosed being contacted by the DoJ and Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the investigation. Merck, the US drugs group, announced that it had also been contacted and was co-operating with investigators.
Read article at yahoo.com

An investigation is long overdue, surely?

South Florida doctors paid thousands by Eli Lilly

While policymakers question whether drug makers are hurting healthcare reform by paying doctors fees, Eli Lilly revealed that it paid ten South Florida providers more than $10,000 each during the first quarter.
Read article in the Miami Herald (Florida/USA)
Comment: Top of the South Florida list -- and No. 3 overall in the U.S. -- was an internist, Manuel Suarez-Barcelo, who admitted that he earned $65,000 by making presentations, mostly to nursing home staff, about the Eli Lilly drug osteoporosis drug Forteo.

Widespread Misrepresentation of Drug Research Findings by Drug Companies Tarnishes Pharmaceutical Industry

Stuart Laidlow of the Toronto Star writes that "From the creation of fake academic journals, to bogus stories submitted to real journals, to falsified results in some of academia's most respected publications – the pharmaceutical industry has been rocked by allegations that the world's biggest drug companies put public relations above public safety."

Some of the drug companies involved include Merck, Eli Lilly and Pfizer.

Put not your trust in drug companies. They clearly care about their profits, rather than the health of the innocent people who get damaged by their products.

Eli Lilly Urged Doctors to Prescribe Zyprexa Inappropriately

Bloomberg reports further on the Eli Lilly/Zyprexa scandal.

Doctors were urged to prescribe Zyprexa for elderly dementia patients, even though it was known that the drug would not help with that condition.

I urge you to read the Bloomberg article.

This is yet another horrifying example of deliberate wrongdoing by drug companies, with the result in this instance that "death rates among older dementia patients taking Zyprexa were “significantly greater” than those who didn’t get the medicine."

I believe that the only health in which drug companies are interested is the health of their own financial profits.

For your own health's sake it would be better to avoid taking pharmaceutical drugs unless they are absolutely necessary.

Strattera adverse effects: UK Medicines Agency refuses to act

Janne Larsson, an investigator and reporter in Sweden, has obtained information about adverse event reports on Eli Lilly's ADHD drug Strattera, using the Swedish freedom of information laws. The data, coming from both the FDA's adverse reaction database and from reports to the UK's Medicines agency, shows numerous adverse effects and scores of deaths by suicide. Yet the agency, even after repeated prodding by Larsson to initiate action, has refused to budge or even acknowledge that there is a problem. MHRA apparently accepts the drug's producer Eli Lilly's data rather than its own and the FDA's adverse event reports.
Read article on Sepp Hasslberger's Health Supreme website

Lilly trained its sales force to downplay Zyprexa's risks

Eli Lilly & Co. trained its sales force to downplay risks for Zyprexa and encourage doctors to prescribe the drug beyond approved uses for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, according to court documents.
Read article at bloomberg.com

Fake batches of Eli Lilly drug Zyprexa found in UK

Fake batches of Eli Lilly drug Zyprexa found in UK - Yahoo News

Extract:

"Initial laboratory tests on the seized counterfeits have found they contain around 60 percent of the labelled active ingredient. Work is still continuing to find out if there are any additional ingredients that could be harmful, although there is no evidence yet of any adverse patient reactions."

No evidence yet of adverse patient reactions? - NOT LIKE THE REAL ZYPREXA THEN!

See http://www.drugs.com/zyprexa.html and http://zyprexa.pbwiki.com/ and loads of other stuff on the internet.

Prescription drugs are dangerous. Avoid them if you can...

Improve your health by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better! See my website www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk (The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Prozac - a very iffy drug...)o:

Eternal sunshine - by Anna Moore in The Observer

This is a very enlightening article. - I urge you to read it - to read all of it; it is a long article. - I especially urge anyone taking, or thinking of taking, antidepressant drugs to read it.

Note: MIND, the respected mental health charity, suggests today that a walk in the country lessens most depression... - Why not try that, instead of assaulting your brain with dodgy psychotropic drugs?

Extract:

"In 1971, when LY110141 - the compound that became Prozac - was developed, depression was rarely discussed and antidepressants largely restricted to the psychiatric unit. People went to their GPs with 'anxiety' and 'nerves'. Tranquillisers such as Valium were a likely response.

Eli Lilly, the company behind Prozac, originally saw an entirely different future for its new drug. It was first tested as a treatment for high blood pressure, which worked in some animals but not in humans. Plan B was as an anti-obesity agent, but this didn't hold up either. When tested on psychotic patients and those hospitalised with depression, LY110141 - by now named Fluoxetine - had no obvious benefit, with a number of patients getting worse. Finally, Eli Lilly tested it on mild depressives. Five recruits tried it; all five cheered up. By 1999, it was providing Eli Lilly with more than 25 per cent of its $10bn revenue.

Fluoxetine was handed to Interbrand, the world's leading branding company (Sony, Microsoft, Nikon, Nintendo) for an identity. The name Prozac was picked for its zap: it sounded positive, professional, quick, proey, zaccy. It was marketed in an easy-to-prescribe 'one pill, one dose for all' formula and came when the medical profession and media were awash with horror stories about Valium addiction.

Prozac hit a society that was in the mood for it. National campaigns (supported by Eli Lilly) alerted GPs and the public to the dangers of depression. Eli Lilly funded 8m brochures (Depression: What you need to know) and 200,000 posters. Previous antidepressants were highly toxic, lethal if overdosed on and had other nasty side-effects. Prozac was pushed as entirely safe, to be doled out by anyone. It was the wonder drug, the easy answer, an instant up, neurological eldorado. When launch day dawned, patients were already asking for it by name.

Twenty years on, Prozac remains the most widely used antidepressant in history, prescribed to 54m people worldwide, and many feel they owe their lives to it. It is prescribed for depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, eating disorders and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (formerly known as PMT). In the UK, between 1991 and 2001, antidepressant prescriptions rose from 9m to 24m a year.

Strangely, depression has reached epidemic levels. "

PMT is best relieved by avoiding eating salt and salty food. - See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/pmt.html - This also helps with depression.