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The risks of medicines used to treat these diseases, such as Ritalin, Prozac, and zyprexa, should be weighed against the use of older, proven drugs. Impotence, male and female, is currently a "hot" area for pharmaceuticals. The new pills created to combat these "diseases" are so lucrative that risks for the patient are of only minimal importance. Arthritis, chronic bowel syndrome, social anxiety disorder, baldness...the list of chronic diseases continues to grow, joining old-timers like diabetes, multiple sclerosis, allergies, Parkinson's disease, and asthma.

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TMAP concluded that the atypical antipsychotic medications Risperdal, produced by Janssen Pharmaceutica, zyprexa produced by Eli Lilly, and Seroquel, produced by AstraZeneca, are the drugs of choice for all first, second and third-line treatments for Schizophrenia. 9. TMAP concluded that all newer, patented antidepressants were superior to generics. 10. TMAP concluded that the patented bi-polar drugs were superior to generic drugs.

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Olanzapine, the Wall Street Journal announced, has "substantial advantages" over other current therapies. "Zyprexa is a wonderful drug for psychotic patients," said John Zajecka, at Rush Medical College in Chicago. Harvard Medical School's William Glazer told the Wall Street Journal: "The real world is finding that zyprexa has fewer extrapyramidal side effects than Risperdal." Stanford University psychiatrist Alan Schatzberg, meanwhile, confessed to the New York Times: "It's a potential breakthrough of tremendous magnitude." On and on it went, the glowing remarks piling up.

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That study, available for viewing in the Physicians 'Desk Reference (a copy of which can be found in any public library), reports that among patients taking 15 mg of zyprexa per day, 20% developed "parkinsonism events" which also included tremors, a shuffling walk, slowed movements and a relatively expressionless face. (Many patients receive prescriptions for doses of30-40 mg per day.)11 Even at the lower 10 mg per day dose, 14% develop some kind of parkinsonism events. Those numbers are higher than they should be. Why?

You didn't do anything to cause your illness, and it's not your fault that you have it. — zyprexa (antipsychotic) ad Eli Lilly & Company WHAT REALLY CA USES SEVERE MENTAL PROBLEMS (SCHIZOPHRENIA) ? Diane was typical of those students who come to see me as class ends whenever I lecture on schizophrenia. I had shared the Genain quadruplet hoax and the research on the lack of long-term recovery in America compared with those countries that do not use drugs to treat mental disorders. I had also shared how schizophrenia can develop in a mind that has been perfectly normal.

Now, let's return to the FDA-approved package insert sheet for zyprexa. and read what it says about tardive dyskinesia. (It is identical to the FDA-approved warning for all antipsychotics. See Box #13-2.) Tardive Dyskinesia — A syndrome of potentially irreversible, involuntary, dyskinetic movements may develop in patients treated with antipsychotic drugs.

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Adderall was removed and zyprexa (a powerful anti-psychotic never tested or approved for use in children either) added. The more medicine they used, the worse he got. He'd be fine for a few weeks, but then it was like uncaging a monster. He started screaming and woke up in the middle of the night hearing voices. Daniel's psychotic episodes began to get more frequent and intense, were brought on by no particular events or circumstances (beside the drugs he was saturated with), and caused him to destroy furniture and try to kill himself and others.

Thorazine, Mellaril, Risperdal, Seroquel, Abilify, Clozapine, Clozaril, Ge-odon, Haldol, Loxitane, Navane, Orap, zyprexa, etc.). Not only is informed consent a right, it should be every person's duty to themselves, their children and parents (when they act for their children, parents or others) to insist on having all the facts they need to make a fully informed decision regarding their treatment.

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In third place was Lilly's latest antidepressant, zyprexa, earning a $4.8 billion share in a $19 billion market. The next three drugs, one for ulcers, one for high blood pressure and one for anaemia and renal failure, each earned more than $4 billion. The bottom four were all in the $3 billion range, comprising another anti-ulcer drug, another heart drug, an asthma agent and another antidepressant, which came in tenth with a still respectable $3.4 billion.

Other examples include Lilly's zyprexa and Prozac to produce Symbyax for depression, and Novartis's Lotensin and Norvasc to create the new hypertensive, Lotrel. Scott Hensley, a Wall Street Journal writer, has claimed: With their laboratories sputtering, almost every major drug company is mixing current or faded blockbusters to help fill the product gap. The strategy aims to blunt generic competition, create a new buzz for mature brands and enhance the chances that patients will stick with their prescription.

This latest development is an even bigger boon to companies who make antidepressants. zyprexa, one of the drugs recommended as a first-line treatment in the Texas algorithm, grossed $4-28 billion worldwide in 2003 and is Eli Lilly's top-selling drug. Around 70% of these sales are already paid for by government agencies, such as Medicare and Medicaid, according to Gardiner Harris writing in the New York Times.18 It is at times like these that one's friends count. Lilly has multiple ties to the Bush administration.

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It is even more amazing that this same statement has been included in the drug insert sheet for zyprexa and several other antipsychotics for many years. What could be more important in prescribing these drugs than knowing exactly how much risk is involved? These drugs have been taken by millions of Americans for years now. Claiming not to know how much risk is involved is inexcusable. (Remember, as noted in Chapter 9, in reality the FDA hates to compare one drug with other similar drugs. Doing so could cause a company receiving a "bad comparison" to lose business and employees.

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One to two million more children are being prescribed the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), including Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil; other antidepressants, such as Wellbutrin, Effexor, and trazodone; the antipsychotic drugs Risperdal, zyprexa, and Haldol; anticonvulsants such as Depakote and Tegretol, used to treat mood disorders and to control anger, irritability, and aggression; and the blood pressure drug clonidine to control inattention, impulsivity, and insomnia. In many instances, kids with behavior problems end up taking a "cocktail" consisting of two or three of these drugs.

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Harvard Medical School's William Glazer told the Wall Street Journal: "The real world is finding that zyprexa has fewer extrapyramidal side effects than Risperdal." Stanford University psychiatrist Alan Schatzberg, meanwhile, confessed to the New York Times: "It's a potential breakthrough of tremendous magnitude." On and on it went, the glowing remarks piling up. Laurie Flynn, executive director of the National Alliance for the Mentally 111, even put an exclamation point on it all: "These new drugs truly are a breakthrough.

However, since Janssen had made it first to the marketplace, Eli Lilly's challenge was to prove in clinical trials that its new drug, olanzapine (marketed as zyprexa), was superior to both haloperidol and risperidone. Olanzapine was chemically more similar to clozapine than Janssen's drug (risperidone blocked D2 receptors in a more potent manner than did clozapine or olanzapine), and as olanzapine came to market in 1996, reports in the medical journals told just the story that Eli Lilly wanted.

January 25, 2000: "Zyprexa (olanzapine) and its main competitor, Risperdal, can split a lot of market between them. Since they are both expensive drugs, they will fill company coffers." Praise from newspaper and magazine writers continued to flow as well. American science, the Washington Post told its readers on July 29, 1998, had developed several "breakthrough" medications that "have proven to be much more effective than older medications in helping schizophrenics lead functional lives and with far fewer side effects.

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These so-called atypical antipsychotic agents—including Risperdal (risperidone), zyprexa (olanzapine), Seroquel (quetiapine), and Clozaril (clozapine)—treat the positive symptoms as well as (or better in the case of Clozaril) conventional antipsychotic agents, and are superior in reducing the negative symptoms. The atypicals are also safer (with the exception of clozapine) because, by and large, they do not cause the neurological symptoms and potentially life-threatening side effects of the earlier drugs.

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