To follow that up, i found this article on a website called Lawyers and Settlements from last December which has an interesting take on it, i strongly recommend you read it
FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!
Some of the drug manufacturers set to benefit from the perinatal women "market" include Eli Lilly, who are the manufacturers of some of the markets best known anti-depressants, such as Prozac and Zyprexa, and also Thimerosol, a very controversial vaccine preservative. They've recently added Posilac, a bovine growth hormone bought from Monsanto, to the list of their interests.
Zyprexa (also known as Olanzapine) has had its controversies in the past, over its off-label use
To understand the history of Zyprexa and Eli Lilly in terms of their marketing history and their company practices; in January of this year, they were fined nearly $1.5 billion for marketing Zyprexa for uses not approved by the FDA.
"The sum includes a criminal fine of $515 million, which the Justice Department called "largest criminal fine for an individual corporation ever imposed in a United States criminal prosecution."
The company will also pay up to $800 million in a civil settlement with the federal government and the states, and forfeit $100 million in assets, the Justice Department said in its statement, for total penalties of $1.415 billion."
A federal court district judge ordered the opening of confidential files which highlighted that the company withheld information regarding the drugs side effects while marketing it for off-label use.
Bear in mind please, that this drug, approved to treat various conditions related to psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, was being given to CHILDREN to treat aggression, elderly patients (despite the fact it has been proven to increase risk of death) and even in some treatment clinics for drug dependancy, where it was being used as a sedative, to help people SLEEP!
They had been hoping to bring a longer acting version of Zyprexa to the market but those plans have been 'delayed', read about it here
A long acting version of Zyprexa is seriously bad news. Put it into context of the example of Amy, which CV1122 has linked in her sidebar, and also outlined in the article Mother's Act Promotes Pregnancy as New Cottage Industry
it takes a persons control of their own mental health out of their hands. Amy was able to get off the drugs she was being prescribed, by lying her way out of the hospital, and her innate understanding that the drugs were not what she needed. Amy was right, her doctor, and psychiatrist who had never even met her were wrong. Imagine if a long acting version of Zyprexa had been administered? Imagine the abuse of this with already vulnerable women.
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