In Trial, Alaska Says Lilly Concealed Risks of a Schizophrenia Drug
ANCHORAGE — Eli Lilly, the drug maker, systematically hid the risks and side effects of Zyprexa, its best-selling schizophrenia medicine, a lawyer for the State of Alaska said Wednesday in opening arguments in a lawsuit that contends the drug caused many schizophrenic patients to develop diabetes.
The lawyer, Scott Allen, said that memorandums from Lilly executives showed that the company knew of Zyprexa’s dangers soon after the drug was introduced in 1996. But Lilly deliberately played down the side effects, Mr. Allen said, so that sales of Zyprexa would not be hurt.
Lilly’s conduct was “reprehensible,” Mr. Allen said. In the suit, which is being heard in Alaska state court before Judge Mark Rindner, the state is asking Lilly to pay for the medical expenses of Medicaid patients who have contracted diabetes or other diseases after taking Zyprexa.
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If someone were to state Mental illness does not exist, all one would have to do in order acquire a meager concept of Mental Illness would be to take a cursory look at THE GROUPs associated with inventing such mental illnesses (i.e. its sources). That is an extremely bold statement to make. “…inventing mental illnesses.”. I suppose this argument presents the paradox of the all too common question of “did the egg come before the chicken?”, or “did the Psychiatrist come before the mental illness?”.
Why would someone like me or millions of others even begin to imply such a blithe notion that Mental Illness is invented by a group of charlatans? After all, people do have rough days, drink excessively and sometimes feel nervous speaking in front of audiences. Adults can also, not even mentioning children, have a bit of difficult time sitting still, in hard wooden or plastic chairs, and concentrating for extended periods of time. After all, couldn’t the entire sum of human responses or emotional difficulties be categories as mental illness. (e.g. recently purported jet lag is a mental illness and can be addressed with medication). Since the mental health experts are only able to diagnose and adjudicate a patient’s mental stability based solely on subjective intuition, where unfortunately lacking a clear-cut blood or forensic test. Couldn’t any and all abnormality (besides of course physically in nature) be classified and/or categorized as a mental health problem (e.g. picking of nose, road rage, excessive surfing of the internet, etc.)?
Without a doubt, no one would argue that any eccentricity in human behavior found could be classified, codified and categorized as a mental health illness. Perhaps because (as reported) mental illness is way too complicated of a subject, is it too much to ask for accurate causes thus leading to such a diagnosis and medication? - meaning, hypothetically; who wouldn’t demand answers from their car mechanic explaining the cause and source of their engine problems, let alone ongoing visits (2-5 visits weekly) to get the same engine tuned or adjusted? Personally, I would want some answers.
What about all the millions of people who have supposedly been assisted by the myriad of FDA rated Class II anti-psychotics/depressants drugs currently on the market (compared by many experts and the FDA to have similar side effects and as addictive as heroin)? How could one deny that people actually feel and operate better on these high powered narcotics? After all, it doesn’t take a genius to see that Johnny is now able to sit still in those hard plastic/wooden chairs in class, and that Betty is certainly able to attended social gatherings without eating up her insides.
Do these drugs change the way we feel?
What’s wrong with the way we feel and who is saying it? Can the root (Psychiatry, Pharmaceutical, DSM, etc.) of all these dreaded mental disorders cure the actual cause(s) of what’s wrong with people in society, or are we going further down a road with more classifications, more people (children too) entwined in chemical straitjackets, addicted to medication (thus turning a profit) and a whole new brave world where everyone on the street has some “disorder” that can be cured with a magic little pill? In ten years from now, will the topics of conversation be “What disorder do you have and what are you taking for it?” Hasn’t a patterns been forming here where the Pharmaceutical companies have been engaging in putting the illicit drug lords out of business? Who wouldn’t want some of the cheddar?
Not only do we have synthetic mental disorders being created; we now have Eli Lilly generating more business in the form of unnatural creation of diabetes.
See: http://www.cchr.org
With all the technology available and with all we’ve come to know about human nature, why are people still suffering needlessly from mental issues. Sure, anyone can take a drug (illicit and/or licit) and feel better. ..but, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to recognize this “Opt-Out” direction doesn’t offer a permanent solution or an answer to the root of a problem. “Why is the cause of mental illness?”.
It’s would be a completely folly assumption and ridiculous attestation that no one suffers from mental health issues. Heck, look around society. I too have personally witnessed people suffering from mental anguish – and, it’s pretty ugly. Now I want to thoroughly delineate exactly what my previous post meant and what I’m getting at here; 90% of society is not mentally ill. Nor is 80%, 70%, or 60%. Roughly, as a high water mark, 20% of society is mentally ill to one degree or another.
The predominate group of the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century who claims to be experts of the mind have unfortunately resorted to unusual solutions resulting in outlandish violation of human rights in more cases than most people are aware of. For example, this particular group (post 9/11) claims they can diagnose unborn children with terrorist tendencies (as a result, in 4 states pregnant woman are mandated BY LAW to undergo mental health screening. 90% of these woman are diagnosed with mental disorders and subsequently (before the child is born) ordered (again) BY LAW to take scheduled II barbiturates (i.e. anti-psychotics). Once the baby is born, the child is give a liquid (typically minty flavored) anti-psychotics). Today, internationally, over 27 million children under the age of 18 are addicted to anti-psychotics. Every single school shooting in the past 15 years has been link to the shooter having taken Anti-Psychotics (I’m certain you’ve heard of a few). Last year, over 280 Psychiatrists were arrested for sexual assaults on patients and mal-billing practices (note: no other medical profession to date has these kind of statistics). Speaking of violations, Psychiatrists were responsible for the orchestration and were the gatekeepers of the Nazi death camps in Germany what was known as “Eugenics”, and were directly responsible for the death of over 6 million Jews.
Needless to say, anyone could bad mouth Psychiatry all day long without getting anywhere – which is probably where they got their nickname of “Shrink”. The proof is in the pudding.
Does Psychiatry produce permanent, long lasting results?
What really irritates many is the overwhelming level of leniency Psychiatry receives (basically where they’re above the law) because they’re supposedly working in the field of terra-incognita. Psychiatry states they are perplex at to the causes and sources of mental illness. How does this make them experts concerning the human mind and allow them to make obscene amounts in billings each year. Take a real basic and close look - if Psychiatry were to ever prove that a chemical imbalance existed in the body, that particular illness would immediately be relegated to Neology or perhaps Physiology. To date, no physical illness (e.g. diabetes, thyroid cancer, etc) has ever been discovered by Psychiatry and turned over to a credible science.
Computers are unknown to many, but computer engineers are still expected to render results (i.e. fix the problem(s)). Say for example a dentist was not able to take care of something as simple as a cavity, while (at the same time) charged their patients for visits – or perhaps worse; kept their patients on a regiment of pain killers for years (just because they were able to write prescriptions) with no hopes of getting better. No would argue these pain killers make patients feel better, but unfortunately results in masking the cavity (or the symptoms). After a while, that particular dentist would be fined, taken to court or perhaps put out of business (flogged in the process). People go to the dentist, their car mechanics, their computer technicians, their medical doctors to handle a myriad of conditions. Each and every one of these professions either produce a desired (non-band aid) and lasting result or they go out of business.
The only time I’ve seen people not holding Psychiatry to a particular standard is when they’re either lazy and have gone into agreement with the purported “this subject is way too complicated to understand” and/or they are unable to confront a bad things.
So here’s the million dollar question: Why isn’t the Psychiatry profession held up to the same standards that any normal person would expect and demand out of other professions?
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