I highly recommend reading that lawsuit, it's got everything in it that any blogger wanted to say, right down to "ghost writers". What a kick ass lawsuit.

'successfully deceived physicians'....who in turn successfully mislead the sick patients. Isnrt it time these pharmaceuticals were punished with more than a slap on the wrist? Try removing their corporate charters! that will soon bring them into line.

Removing their corporate charters is a good idea. But the Department of Justice has the power to bring a criminal trial, instead of or in addition to a civil trial. The DOJ, Eastern PA District, is discussing making Lilly give back 1 billion dollars for off label marketing and hiding lethal side effects. Terrif, but NOT JUSTICE for our dead family members. If you feel like it , consider writing Patricia.Hartman@usdoj.gov and asking that the DOJ bring a criminal trial as well. Destination prison. The evidence is right here on this blog. Thank you.

Here's the French authorities investigating *manslaughter charges* for some drug companies' involvement in unnecessary vaccines http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssHealthcareNews/idUSL0173467120080201

Ellen,

I'm wondering where the 1 billion Eli Lilly may give back will go. Do you have any idea? I'd recommend distribution to the folks who's live were destroyed by their drugs. I'll email Ms. Hartman. These folks should rot in prison at the very least. The idea that people are serving life sentences in Alabama for selling marijuana while the real bad guys run free is enough to get a person slapped with a punitive psych label.

Importantly, the lawsuit notes that tardive dyskinesia - an untreatable and largely irreversible brain disorder exemplified by abnormal, often violent body movements, is a distinct possibility from exposure to so called "atypical" neuroleptics, like Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa.

It initially took more than 20 years before Big Pharma and its criminal band of psychiatric whores who push its wares, would acknowledge that their new "wonder drugs" - the neuroleptics - have created an unprecedented plague of brain damage.

Millions of patients exposed to neuroleptics now suffer the deeply stigmatizing, and often very painful symptoms of tardive dyskinesia, a completely unnecessary treatment-caused disease.

With one plague of brain damage under its belt, Big Pharma then moved on to peddle its latest "wonder drugs", the "atypical neuroleptics", claiming they were much much safer. Do you believe them?

As the saying goes: Fool me once, shame on you.. Fool me twice, shame on ME!

The industry and the sales front men, the quacks and shrinks, claimed that rarely if ever do atypicals cause tardive dyskinesia, tardive akathisia, tardive dementia, tardive psychosis, etc.

Now from the evidence that is in - from the lawsuits that are in the courts - we see that Big Pharma has lied YET AGAIN!

Tardive Dyskinesia and other iatrogenic, untreatable movement disorders from exposure to ATYPICAL neuroleptics, are a very real risk that every patient should contemplate very seriously before taking a neuroleptic drug.

Be very careful, good people, because Big Pharma, one of the most evil industries in the world, doesn't give a damn who it damages in its relentless pursuit of profit and power.

The 1 billion will go back to the federal government. AND LILLY CAN CONTINUE TO SELL ZYPREXA to Medicaid and Medicare. A number of us who lost our children to Zyprexa have written to them, as have a few who lost their children to the SSRI¡s, especially Lilly's PROZAC.

the thing is, the people in big pharma, and drug reps, all of it...they didn't take the Hippocratic oath, so they are essentially off the hook. it's all about money, power and business, and unfortunately the consumers suffer at the hands of an industry. i place the doctors under scrutiny, yet even then, if data is skewed, buried or hidden, even they are innocent.
i doubt these people will go to prison,ever.

I would be the first one to agree. I gained 35 pounds on Zyprexa (people I know developed diabetes from it as wel) and with it in combination with a typical antipsychotic developed what was years later diagnosed as tardive dyskinesia, tardive dystonia, tardive akathesia, tardive myoclonus, tardive tourreticism and am under study for tardive psychosis.
The more imporant thing is that there are new antipsychotics in study, the glutamate antagonists, that don't cause any of these disabilities. I have been documented as making a full recovery from schizoaffective disorder with glycine, a glutamate antagonist in Phase II FDA study. The glutamate antagonists work differently from all known antipsychotics. They do not cause synapatic brain damage. And yes Eli Lilly is researching one and like anyone here I wouldn't trust them. But the recovery from this class of medications came from me. I obtain it out of study (under supervision of a psychiatrist, which is how it must be taken) so I am not a "statistic".
And as for tardive psychosis the fact that I am under study for that (and more importantly treatments have been identified with my advocacy such as the medication Zofran and the natural remedy rhodiola as identified by Dr. Richard Brown of Columbia University which he is studying for treatment of Parkinson's and tardive dyskinesia). And all this is being confirmed by multiple provider agencies including the director of the American Psychiatric Association.
People have done good work to stop the harm. But what if there were antipsychotics that didn't cause this harm? And the recovery was identified by a mental health consumer? Its for real. I just can't print my provider's name in public but the case study will be published online. I didn't "accept" how advanced my tardive dyskinesia is which is to the point where without treatment I would die from respiratory convulsions (before treatment, I had 2 near death experiences) and I am homebound.
In my own research I found antipsychotic agents that wouldn't cause the harm. And pushed for tardive psychosis to be identified and treated. And not one provider agency (I'm not associated with any of them but have recieved correspondence from their e.d.'s) from NAMI to Narsad disagreed that all research should be into new treatment modalities, especially the glutamate antagonists.
They don't have legal control over the fact that multiple copies of Abilify are being researched. Why? Nor does the FDA? Why not either? We must act!! What if tardive psychosis were named as a category and treated and new medications developed that would never cause synaptic brain damage and diabetes? With my advocacy this is happenning. But one person's voice can't accomplish this alone. If you want to find out more please contact me. What if we could change things? For the better? Treatments that could help people recover. I ask myself how many people are developing tardive dyskinesia now? And how many people have tardive psychosis and have it misdiagnosed as "treatment refractory schizophrenia"? And when I take the glycine, it treats my schizoaffective in a real world manner. It doesn't feel like "heavy medication". It helps me to understand the world and enhances my creativity and ability to communicate and relate to people. In my own terms. But because of what has happenned from the previous anti-psychotics and what happenned to me, I can hardly leave my house. Or function physically. But they are listening. Contact me and find out more. We can change them for the better so that everyone can "have the mental recovery I did without the neurological disabilities". The time is now!!