Newly Released Alaska Zyprexa Documents Add More Detail To Zyprexa Scandal

Over the weekend, about 1,000 pages of documents recently unsealed by an Alaskan court--which had been overseeing the recent Alaska v. Lilly case up there--hit the Internet. The documents were unsealed because of the efforts of the Bloomberg wire service and have hit the Net thanks to the efforts of Psych Rights. I owe both parties a debt.

I was able to skim about 200 pages of the documents on Saturday and my sense of things is that these documents simply add more layers of detail to what is already known about how Lilly tried to cover up problems with Zyprexa and how the company played fast-and-loose with off-label marketing rules, among other things. In other words, the original set of Zyprexa documents on this site have already established the main allegations against Lilly.

If there are any smoking guns in the new documents, I'll let you know.

The documents are located here under "Unsealed Documents." I want to encourage readers to not go rushing to download these documents for a few reasons. One, I am not sure what Psych Right's bandwidth situation is and the collected documents run to about 400 megabytes and we don't want to overwhelm the group's resources. Second, the scans of the documents are of poor quality and you would find them difficult to read much less print out. Hopefully, they'll be in somewhat cleaner form in the near future.

More on this later today.