The case for the prosecution.
Lilly has had other Zyprexa scandals, but in this current one, Lilly executives matched Charles Dickens scoundrels. Zyprexa is approved by the Food and Drug and Administration (FDA) for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but Lilly illegally marketed it for sleep difficulties, aggression, and other unapproved uses. Lilly sales reps aggressively pushed Zyprexa as a wonderful drug to chill out disruptive children and the elderly who were not schizophrenic or bipolar. The lawsuit against Lilly stated, "In truth, this was Lilly's thinly veiled marketing of Zyprexa as an effective chemical restraint for demanding, vulnerable and needy patients."
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I took Zyprexa off-label 1996-2000 for PTSD and it was worthless for my symptoms and gave me diabetes with a sudden onset A1c of 14.
It is a damn good sleeping pill and took me 6 weeks of wicked withdrawl with insominia to get off it.
BTW-How in the world does 8 Lilly employee "whistle-blowers" get $10 million each when real victims like me get ignored?
Where is this now up to $4.6 billion payout going?
Amazing
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