MONTANA: BIG SKY, BIG BALLS

Attorney General Mike McGrath has sued two national pharmaceutical companies and accused them of manufacturing certain prescription drugs that were “in defective condition and unreasonably dangerous.”

McGrath filed the complaint in state district court in Helena Wednesday against Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc. and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP over their prescription drugs Risperdal and Seroquel, respectively. These medicines were intended to treat adult schizophrenia and short-term treatment of acute mania associated with bipolar disorder.

He charged that the two companies “have engaged in false and misleading marketing, advertising and sales campaigns to promote these drugs for non-medically indicated uses.” McGrath said the companies “successfully deceived physicians, citizen-users and others in the medical community” about the safety of these drugs compared to other antipsychotic drugs in order to carve out a greater market share.

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Comments

[Reader]

Good book just came out that all drug advocates need to read: Medication Madness by Peter Breggin. It is an eye opener even for the skeptical.

My question is: Why doesn't Montana take on the doctors who are prescribing the drugs? They are the ones assaulting, abusing, and even killing our loved ones with prescriptions.

[Anne Dachel]

I wondered what Mr. McGrath would have to say about the whole vaccine-autism controversy. If he feels that Risperdal and Seroque were worth suing over, what action would he be willing to take in the vaccine scandal, especially concerning the use of the mercury-based preservative that was never tested and approved by the FDA?

What would he think about the famous "Merck Memo" of 1991 when Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the top vaccinologists in the world, wrote a memo to the president of Merck Pharmaceutical Co. warning about the high mercury levels children were receiving in their vaccines but that the warning was ignored and mercury exposure was only increased with additional vaccines.
LA TIMES: PDF] '91 Memo Warned of Mercury in Shots

How about the information in Evidence of Harm by David Kirby? http://www.evidence ofharm.com/ He chronologically listed over 70 years of scientific research on the damaging and deadly effects of thimerosal that was willfully ignored by Eli Lilly, the FDA, and the CDC.

If Mike McGrath thinks Risperdal and Seroque injured people in Montana, how would he feel about what unsafe vaccines have done to the children of his state? How about the future cost to Montana when they're faced with a growing population of adults with autism requiring support and care for life? I'd really like the opportunity to ask him.

[Gatogorra]

I read "Snape-- Good or Evil" when it came out and loved it! At this point I'm thinkin'... hmmm... "evil".

[Stagmom]

Autism Speaks is at the helm of trying to get PROZAC approved as an autism "treatment." Read this piece I wrote last year about their head of treatment, Eric Hollander and his umbilical connection to Prozac's generic.

http://www.rescuepost.com/rescue_post/2007/07/snape-good-or-e.html

[Gatogorra]

There are rumors that pharma's currently sniffing around the CAA deliberations. It sounds like they're going to try-- ever so helpfully!-- to get a "MAP" or Medication Algorithm Program (as in T-MAP) of some kind officially attached to autism as a recommended line of treatment. Using of course, expensive, dangerous on-patent drugs which pharma hopes the public will assume are tailored to the "genetic brain chemical imbalance" of autism. Cough. This will require even more genetic research into cause in the hopes-- not of coming up with a cure-- but of coming up with an excuse to foist the drugs on our children. And once there's a "MAP", mandated and coerced drugging can follow, as has already happened to the Tseglin family in California and others with effected children.

It's one thing for individual families to choose the drugs as sedatives after all other options for controlling dangerous behavior have been exhausted. It's another thing entirely to try to fabricate the idea that the drugs "fix" anything in the brains of our children based on bogus genetic theories and then to try to make this a policy, by force if necessary, of all families.

Maybe I'm wrong, but the potential bilking of CAA (which has happened with countless other autism research funds) to promote psychopharmaceutical drug use among autistic children sounds very much like what McGrath is fighting along with twenty-nine or so other state attorneys general. Except, of course, some of these drugs have already been approved by the FDA for treatment of autism in order to trump any off-label marketing charges.