The Zyprexa Chronicles: Zyprexa On French TV

The French news program "Complement d'enquete" on the France 2 network had a piece on Zyprexa last week. The piece was mostly shot in the US. Because of a bad video feed, I haven't been able to assess what it says, but it includes an appearance by the mother of someone who died as a result of taking Zyprexa, the New York Times' Alex Berenson, and images of certain documents which the show may or may not have gotten from this site.

The web link is here. If you click on the "Voir ou revoir cette émission en intégralité" link on that page, the show will come up in a streaming version. The Zyprexa portion of it is the final third of the program.

Is there anyone out there who understands French who can watch it and tell me what's going on?

UPDATE: We now have a loose account of the Zyprexa portion of the program.

"I watched the Zyprexa part -- they have Alex talking about Eli Lilly sitting on proof of Zyprexa-driven hyperglycemia and diabetes while actively marketing off-label uses, they have a mother who lost her son who was on Zyprexa, they have a mother whose bipolar daughter gained a lot of weight and developed hyperglycemia, they have the doc who blew the whistle. Then they go to Eli Lilly and ask the PR guy, Does Zyprexa cause diabetes, and he says, Love to answer that but I know that in France it's illegal to advertise drugs on TV, and I don't want to get fined for this interview if I talk about how a particular drug works. They don't seem to believe he's being completely honest with them on this point. Then they go back and talk about how much money Eli Lilly has been making on Zyprexa and how (interview with Yale doc) studies indicate that it's no more effective than older medicines, but has more dangerous side effects.

"At the end of the show, btw, they have a French psychiatrist on, and since they've covered an involuntary commitment center and a family-run outpatient care, they ask him for his views on dangerous crazy people. He says there's no way for a medical professional to predict this or that person is dangerous to others because they have a mental disorder. He also says that he wants to make it clear there is no link between mental disorders and violent behavior (presumably in comparison with the general population)."

Thanks MvB.