Big Pharma’s Criminal / Civil Settlements
Today's news reports about an increase suicide rate in 2004 offer an opportunity to witness how the media unwittingly disseminates pharmaceutical industry generated propaganda.
Colonel Coots: "It is a significant breach of academic protocol. It’s a breach of trust."
AHRP PROPOSAL:
Any FDA-approved drug, whose manufacturer has been found by a court of law or the Department of Justice–to have illegally marketed the drug by concealing risks or incidence of adverse effects, or making unsupported claims of clinical benefit–should be denied coverage by taxpayer funded insurance programs–including Medicaid, Medicare, VeteranstAffairs.
2005 was a year in which some of Big Pharma’s clandestine relationships with an army of bought-and- paid- for minions in academia,
government, congress, the media, and front organizations were uncovered–in courtrooms, investigative books, reports and films.
"From the start, the [Tri-University Schizophrenia Practice Guidelines] project subverted scientific integrity, appearing to be a purely scientific venture when it was at its core, a marketing venture for Risperdal."
USA Today reports that last year the pharmaceutical industry "faced the most product liability lawsuits of any other industry."