This is the kicker...Zyprexa is only FDA approved for schizophrenia (.5-1% of pop) and some bipolar (2% pop) and then an even smaller percentage of theses two groups. So how the heck does Zyprexa get to be the 7th largest drug sale in the world?
Eli Lilly is in deep trouble for using their drug reps to 'encourage' doctors to write zyprexa for non-FDA approved 'off label' uses. The drug causes increased diabetes risk,and medicare picks up all the expensive fallout.There are now 7 states (and counting) going after Lilly for fraud and restitution. -- Daniel Haszard
I will say though that Zyprexa is a landmark drug in the treatment of Schizophrenia. For the 1/3 of patients for whom it works, the abatement of psychiatric symptoms WITHOUT personality dulling 'side-effects' had been the impossible dream when I first entered the Psych field.
This is the kicker...Zyprexa is only FDA approved for schizophrenia (.5-1% of pop) and some bipolar (2% pop) and then an even smaller percentage of theses two groups.
ReplyDeleteSo how the heck does Zyprexa get to be the 7th largest drug sale in the world?
Eli Lilly is in deep trouble for using their drug reps to 'encourage' doctors to write zyprexa for non-FDA approved 'off label' uses.
The drug causes increased diabetes risk,and medicare picks up all the expensive fallout.There are now 7 states (and counting) going after Lilly for fraud and restitution.
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Daniel Haszard
Interesting.
ReplyDeleteI will say though that Zyprexa is a landmark drug in the treatment of Schizophrenia. For the 1/3 of patients for whom it works, the abatement of psychiatric symptoms WITHOUT personality dulling 'side-effects' had been the impossible dream when I first entered the Psych field.
That doesn't mean it's good for everything.