Posted by missliz on January 25, 2003, at 13:26:17
In reply to Re: The Neurontin Scandal - NPR, posted by Alan on January 24, 2003, at 14:28:05
A whole lot of you all missed my point SO TOTALLY!
1- there are numerous double blind placebo controlled studies showing that Neurontin doesn't work for the off label studies the company claimed it was so wonderful for. They were done to try to get the stuff aditional FDA approvals. Neurontin either doesn't work, works for a few weeks/ months then quits, or makes people worse. Google it and see for youselves. The search engine is the patients best freind, learn how to use it.
2- Neurontin is a product that happens to be a drug. Do not kid yourselves, the drug co.'s are loyal to the stockholders and see us as cash cows to be exploited. Psych patients are the most easily kicked around group in our society, and a lot of us have federally funded insurance to milk. Our society is full of dangerous automobiles, crummy food, cigarettes, smog, and you're surprised that a bogus psych drug came along to pick your pocket?
3- This isn't about a New York Times article. There was a trial in Boston where all this came out, a whistle blower from whithin the company produced the same kind of incriminating evidence as the stuff that came out at the big tobacco hearings. Don't you people watch the news? Or Google drugs before you eat them?
As long as you are all good little children and tolerate this kind of horrific treatment we will never get better drugs and better lives because a bunch of crooked businessmen will use us as human sacrifices to the bottom line. I think I deserve better, but the mentally ill are the most crapped on group of people in America because most patients won't take responsibility and say no, that isn't acceptable. A lot of us can't, but the people who can write their congressman about things like this can't be bothered. Spare me the self centered whining.
4- One last peice of reality, kiddoes. Drug company reps are the biggest source of your doctors continuing education. A lot of the drugs pushed for psych do work, but there's just too much money to be made for a Neurontin not to happen. Zyprexa was surrounded by apalling scandal in its testing phase too, but I know half of you won't beleive it. Not until you get type II diabetes and a hundred pound wheight gain and all the other grisly fallout from that particular work of the devil. Read the book, "Mad in America" by Robert Whitaker for starters.
I personally spent two years of personal crisis while on Neurontin wondering what the hell had happened to my mind. Then I refused to take it anymore and am returning to myself again. I'm not the only one. And I'm angry about it, I deserve better.missliz
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