New anti psychotics..Dangerous to your health?

[undergroundpanther]

People are being drugged for profit in state institutions in PA. While PennMap was being implemented, Stefan was a psychiatric consultant for the Department of Health and Human Services, in charge of the mental health programs and found that some patients were on as many as five neuroleptic psychiatric drugs at the same time. Stefan also discovered corrupt financial relationships between PA politicians and pharmaceutical representatives, fraudulent medication billings to the government, and that four children and one adult died while under the state's care, after they were prescribed lethal combinations of anti-psychotic drugs under the PennMap model.

According to Stefan, the new generation of antipsychotics substantially increase the risk of obesity, diabetes type II, hypertension, cardiovascular complications, heart attacks and stroke. The drug makers had this information and "simply ignored the problem," he said.

"So, what we have now is a drug, Zyprexa, whose massive revenues and promotion are based upon faulty disclosures by the manufacturer, Eli Lilly," Stefan advises, "the drug causes both a severe metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular problems at the same time that it continues to cause neurological side-effects like its older typical antipsychotics."

It does have a decided advantage for Lilly, Stefan contends, "It is far more expensive, dose per dose, than a comparable generic antipsychotic." A dose of haloperidol might sell for 6 pennies while Zyprexa might sell for over 6 dollars per pill, he said.




http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=11631&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported

[stillcool]

1. ..I can vouch for this article...

Zyprexa is not a new drug, but came under scrutiny a couple years ago. I had taken it when the commercials started appearing on the television from 'toxic RX' lawyers filing mass-action lawsuits. The newer anti-psychotics like Geodon are very scary, both for the side affects known and those that aren't. When it is prescribed it is recommended that you get an EKG. I think in the last couple of years the FDA is working with the drug co's and testing is minimal. Because my doctor has such faith in drugs I have decided to not take anything that has come on the market in the last several years.

[wli]

2. and with the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health...

Prepare for mass screening and mass involuntary commitment, outpatient and inpatient.

Rest assured, the "screening" process will be mandatory to get a job, and thoroughly politically and racially biased.

[undergroundpanther]

3. really hard to revolt

against opressors when you are too sick,tired or full of side effects/withdrawl symptoms to fight for your human rights.

[demigoddess]

4. zyprexa can also cause seizures, and the drs. seem to know about it.

my daughter got seizures after 4 months on the drug.

[Wordie]

5. I saw an ad on tv from a group of attorneys; there's a class action

suit in the works on Zyprexa, and a couple of other drugs (sorry that I don't know which ones...the ad went by too fast.)

Here's an article about one person's experience (posted for info purposes only, not medical advice):
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/30652/

And if you took zyprexa and had problems, you won't believe the number of attorneys advertising their services (for the class action suit) you have to choose from. Just google "zyprexa + class action" and you'll be amazed. (Again, this is for info purposes only, not legal advice.)