06-12-2009, 07:31 AM | #1 | |
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I hope they hammer these people. This crap has to stop.
Lilly Sold Drug for Dementia Knowing It Didn’t Help, Files Show Quote:
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Was that when Bush was on the board of directors at Lilly?
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06-12-2009, 08:05 AM | #4 |
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Was he really? According the article it all started in 1998. So I don't know.
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Bush I was on the board of directors in the 70s, and Bush II appointed the CEO who ran the company during this time period to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
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Oh crud, I was hoping there were some decongestants in this thread.
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Well at least those old people weren't using untested home remedies. God knows those don't work.
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Wait, I'm confused...the title says "NONE OF THESE REMEDIES WORK" but the article says that some of them do.
Which do I believe? The title can't be wrong, can it?
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Come on, cat.
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The thing about Lily is when they first invented their new wonder pill Zyprexa they wanted to get it out there and into the consumer as quickly as possible.
The use of this drug spread like Aspirin and the doctors were getting free samples and all the pens, notepads and clocks they could eat. For a person with insurance the prescription was mere pennies (o.k. a couple bucks) but the actual cost of a month's worth of this garbage was well over a hundred dollars. See where this is going? Later studies found that this pill was causing diabetes because of all the sugar cravings and sudden weight gain, and a severe dependency on the drug, even if you didn't really need it. By that I mean, if you told a doctor in 99' that you were depressed, they'd prescribe this crap. Yes, I've seen it happen. It's disgusting. So years pass for these patients taking this pill, they don't feel better (in fact they don't "feel" anything at all) and they want to be relieved of Zyprexa's monster grip. Nope, you have to be weened off of it slowly or it can cause panic attacks, heart problems, mania, you know, like heroin addiction. If you ask my opinion it should either be pulled or doctors should use a little more discretion with who they're prescribing this shit to. That's my 2 cents. |
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The Emperor's New Drugs.
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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When Lily advertises a drug for something that studies have found it has no effect on, it is a scandal, and rightly so. It should be an even bigger scandal for the "alternative medicine" industry, for whom that is the business model. Lily could have put Zyprexa in the herbal remedy aisle with a few testimonials and they wouldn't have needed to do any testing in the first place.
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