tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11034229.post116644575655959871..comments2023-07-14T02:53:40.719-07:00Comments on retired doc's thoughts: More accusations of big pharma behaving very badlyjames gaultehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537303135780186926noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11034229.post-1166522587373027382006-12-19T02:03:00.000-08:002006-12-19T02:03:00.000-08:00Eli Lilly Zyprexa scandal Zyprexa off label promot...Eli Lilly Zyprexa scandal<BR/> <BR/>Zyprexa off label promotion scandal is all over the news now.<BR/>Lilly drug reps are alleged to have called their marketing ploy,"Viva zyprexa".<BR/> <BR/>Eli Lilly zyprexa cost me over $250.00 a month supply out of my own pocket X 4 years and has up to ten times the risk (over non users) of causing diabetes and severe weight gain.<BR/> <BR/>Zyprexa which is only FDA approved for schizophrenia (.5-1% of pop) and some bipolar (2% pop) and then an even smaller percentage of theses two groups.<BR/>So how does Zyprexa get to be the 7th largest drug sale in the world?<BR/>Eli Lilly is in deep trouble for using their drug reps to 'encourage' doctors to write zyprexa for non-FDA approved 'off label' uses. <BR/> <BR/>The drug causes increased diabetes risk,and medicare picks up all the expensive fallout.There are now 7 states (and counting) going after Lilly for fraud and restitution.<BR/> <BR/>Only 9 percent of adult Americans think the pharmaceutical industry can be trusted right around the same rating as big tobacco. <BR/> <BR/>---<BR/>Daniel Haszard zyprexa-victims.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com