ELI LILLY
Founded shortly after the Civil War, when the U.S. drug industry was still filled with purveyors of snake oil, Eli Lilly became a leading producer of what were known as ethical drugs. Starting in the 1970s, its ethics came into question as the company became embroiled in a series of controversies in which it was accused of covering up dangerous side effects of some of its drugs and engaging in illegal marketing for unapproved purposes. Lilly ended up paying hundreds of millions of dollars to settle private lawsuits and more than $1 billion in criminal fines and civil settlements with the federal government and the states.
“Basically what Eli Lilly had to do was cover up that risk of mania and psychosis, cover up that some people were becoming suicidal because they were getting this nervous agitation from Prozac. That’s the only way it got approved. There were various ways they did the cover-up. One was just to simply remove reports of psychosis from some of the data. They also went back and recoded some of the trial results. Let’s say someone had a manic episode or a psychotic episode; instead of putting that down, they would just put down a return of depression, and that sort of thing. So there was a basic need to hide these risks right from the beginning, and that’s what was done.”
Psychiatric Drugs: An Assault on the Human Condition Street Spirit Interview with Robert Whitaker
ELI LILLY – RAP SHEET
Corp-Research.org – Predatory behavior and violations. A complete inventory.
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Sources of Interest
Psychiatric Drugs: An Assault on the Human Condition
Eli Lilly CEO E-Mail Discussed Unapproved Use of Drug – targeting children
Prozac – Antidepressant with serious side effects
Legal system rules antidepressants cause kids to kill
Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs
Reading
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients
The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine
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