NAMI Board Member Was Paid Consultant on AZ's Seroquel, Documents Say

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  the reason seroquel is still being touted and defended by
  pharma, congress and just the whole medical establishment is
  what i can gather from these facts:
  
  1) persons with bad psychosis or sever bi-polar manic episodes
  in the past had to be admitted frequently to the hospital psyche
  wards for weeks of observation and after a high recividsm rate
  ended up in a state asylum
  
  obviouslly there is no money but for this miracle drug it
  eliminates costly hospital stays at tax payers expense
  
  2) fact supporting the tactic approval is the fact these patients
  are know to not take their medicines as prescribed and rarely
  ever follow through on drug maintenance program offered to
  them by medicaid programs locally
  
  3) these psychotics after a while off their legal meds once they
  start feeling ok they naturally at some point start getting into
  trouble many times taking alchohol or drugs and then the miracle
  occurs when all they need to do is grab a few seroquel pills to
  knock them out for a few days
  
  4) the medicine is a godsend for medical community who
  otherwise know no cure exists for these people and they truly
  are not alcoholics or drug abusers as typically arises from
  recreational use the seek these as palliatives
  
  5) FDA only approved seroquel for teh two conditions above
  however emails exist advising sales reps to essentially lie to drs
  that it was approved for off use for anxiety and agitation etc
  when in fact dangers were known
  
  6) Astrazeneca(co) sent warning letters to drs in japan but not
  here although you did state it is there hidden in fine print now
  that blood glucose levels to be monitored before and during use
  of said drug
  
  7) the two above FDA approved uses represent a very small
  percentage of psychotics and bi polars who would actually need
  thsi drug for instance many bi polars on just lithium alone are
  fine- these extreme manic episodes of people ripping the walls
  down in their homes are rare
  
  8) so by lying to doctors about non FDA approved uses is how
  the many billions -est 2.2 billion first year sales in 1997-made
  this a wonedr drug
  
  9) finally-although i am sure more damaging evidence exists in
  what the courts have on file in cases termed bellweather i guess
  nicer way of saying iron clad-the many innocent people harmed
  by this drug were the honest ones abiding by their doctors set
  dosage and taking them as scheduled. these are the ones
  whose lives will never be the same in fact some have died i dont
  have an exact account but this is public knowledge listed on the
  web and the rest whose bodies and health are declining rapidly
  just waiting to die and wish they were dead
  
  10) it is very simple to determine a bell weather case- just take
  a patient who has been on several medications for 18 years and
  has medical records that glucose levels,blood pressure, genera
  health show no change but steady functioning life of wwork and
  stbaility devoid of severe episodes once he gets on this stuff s-
  seroquel and finds months later he thinks he is dying then the
  proof is there- this person was responsible with his life, did not
  waste valuable resources by being constantly hospitalized etc
  and he is the one victimized here
  
  11)and in the case i know well the patient had non of the FDA
  approved symptoms he only had anxiety and agitation that in
  reality a good psychiatrist could have handled rather than a
  mere drug pusher who you and the whole system support
  
  12) I say this because this ad glosses over in an artistic sleight
  of hand the dangers of this drug which leads me to believe you
  are aiding the defendants by with holding the damaging aspect
  as your fine print's lack of bold lettering further supported AZN
  on the fine print lending itself to this fact as you obviously know
  these dangers but by failing to place them in plain view same as
  defendents you instead chose to obsure them within the
  accolades of some andy warhol asian knock off wannabe artist
  ad- that is the only message the ad supports same as you do
  when in order to help teh public you should have torn down the
  artists works subjectively to avoid more deaths
  
  13) this whole chain of events is a disgrace and indictment
  against the gross intentional culpability of AZN and you the
  media for tacitly looking the other way the same as the medical
  community has down all along- you dont have the guts to stand
  up against these drug co because you might affect their stock
  price and become irrelevant as an media analyst losing respect
  from your peers is worse than saving lives us the suckers who
  trust.