Counterfeit medicine fraud: man jailed

I must confess this BBC News report caused me a double-take. "A man has been jailed for eight years for his part in what has been described as the most serious fake medicine fraud in the European Union. Peter Gillespie, 64, from Hertfordshire, was part of a £4.7m plot to bring two million doses of counterfeit drugs from China to the UK. He was convicted of conspiring to defraud pharmaceutical wholesalers, pharmacists and members of the public." The fake drugs "contained only a fraction of the correct dosage. They included Zyprexa, a medicine to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder."

The prosecution claimed that patients had been put at risk by this fraud. - I seriously wonder about this. - Zyprexa is such a dangerous drug. See Drug information about Zyprexa. And, perhaps more pertinently, read this damning Bloomberg report about the criminally fraudulent claims made about Zyprexa by the drug's manufacturers and the great harm (including death) the drug caused to unfortunate patients who took it. Maybe patients would have been a great deal less at risk from counterfeit Zyprexa than from the real thing...

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

Truthman speaks out against GlaxoSmithKline

Truthman speaks out here against nefarious practices by GlaxoSmithKline, the drug company. He writes about the illegal marketing of depression drug Wellbutrin as a weight-loss aid, and the tragedies caused by SSRI anti-depressants, including Prozac, Seroxat, Citalopram and Zyprexa, because of their grave side-effects. If you ever think of taking any of this pharmaceutical junk yourself, I urge you to ponder Truthman's words and the words of Dr David Healy, an expert on SSRI drugs, and think again. Improving your nutrition is far more likely to lessen depression than any pharmaceutical mind-altering drugs. Can you really trust GSK or other drug companies with the safety of your brain/mind when you read of their iniquitous behaviour? - Your brain is not infinitely elastic. Guard it from assault by psychotropic drugs.

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.

Bitter Pill: Zyprexa, a flawed and dangerous drug exploited by the manufacturers, Eli Lilly

Created to treat schizophrenia, Zyprexa, aka olanzapine, wound up being used on misbehaving kids. How the pharmaceutical industry turned a flawed and dangerous drug into a $16 billion bonanza.
Read article in Rolling Stone magazine

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...

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