Furious Seasons

January 08, 2009

Zyprexa Long-Acting Injectable Suffers Setback

News is out that the FDA has yet again said it's not prepared to approve the long-acting Zyprexa injectable, sister to the short-acting, diabetes-causing pill and short-acting injectable.

It's not clear when the FDA will approve this drug or when Lilly might give up on it (likely never!), but this back-and-forth has been going on for at least a year now.

Posted by Philip Dawdy at January 8, 2009 11:17 AM

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Is it packaged with long acting insulin?

Posted by: Lisa at January 8, 2009 05:18 PM

I wonder if the rip rap FDA is turning away the long acting injectable as a gesture, knowing that it has turned the other cheek to thousands of diabetes and deaths OR whether they are truly afraid the injectee will drop dead on the spot.

Posted by: Sorrowful at January 9, 2009 12:50 PM

Something I just posted to my site, but well worth posting here, I think. I'll only include the link to the TIME article, not to the post on my site.

A few minutes ago I stopped doing nothing long enough to pick up my most recent copy of TIME magazine. The following is an excerpt from an article about Borderline Personality Disorder (Click the link below to read the full article). BPD is one of the things I have been told I have.

According to this article, it's common for antidepressants to be ineffective with patients who have Borderline Personality Disorder.

[..] Borderline patients are often overmedicated--partly because therapists see them as difficult--but for Lily, as for most borderlines, the meds did little. "Drug treatment for BPD is much less impressive than most people think," Paris writes in Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. [...]

The Mystery of Borderline Personality Disorder By John Cloud / Seattle Thursday, Jan. 08, 2009

Posted by: Andy Alt at January 11, 2009 12:12 PM

The AstraZeneca pharma rep was doing a "Lunch and Learn" at the psych hospital representing Seroquel as a treatment for Borderline! Why psych hospitals fail: No therapy, nothing but medication based discharge plans.

Posted by: Stephany at January 11, 2009 05:09 PM

i have been waiting for this injection to come out and cant wait. i have to make sure that my son thats his zyprexa every night before the med he was wasting his life away staying in his room not dealing with nothing at all now he is out although i have to give him his meds he is 24 and im soon to be 48 i really dont want to do this the rest of my life everyday we both need the long lasting injection

Posted by: bkangel at February 15, 2009 08:55 PM