Pharmaceuticals Bribe Doctors To Sell Drugs. Drugs W/Serious Side Effects

[KittyWampus]

Drugs with side effects generally way more serious than a placebo. Side effects like SUICIDE. And the targets were children in some cases.

It is a wonder how some people are in such denial about this.

GlaxoSmithKline fined $3bn after bribing doctors to increase drugs sales

The pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline has been fined $3bn (£1.9bn) after admitting bribing doctors and encouraging the prescription of unsuitable antidepressants to children. Glaxo is also expected to admit failing to report safety problems with the diabetes drug Avandia in a district court in Boston on Thursday.

The company encouraged sales reps in the US to mis-sell three drugs to doctors and lavished hospitality and kickbacks on those who agreed to write extra prescriptions, including trips to resorts in Bermuda, Jamaica and California.
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Psychiatrists and their partners were flown to five-star hotels, on all-expenses-paid trips where speakers, paid up to $2,500 to attend, gave presentations on the drugs. They could enjoy diving, golf, fishing and other extra activities arranged by the company.

GSK also paid for articles on its drugs to appear in medical journals and "independent" doctors were hired by the company to promote the treatments, according to court documents.
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The prosecution said the company paid $275,000 to Dr Drew Pinsky, who hosted a popular radio show, to promote the drug on his programme, in particular for unapproved uses – GSK claimed it could treat weight gain, sexual dysfunction, ADHD and bulimia.
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Despite the large fine, $3bn is far less than the profits made from the drugs. Avandia has made $10.4bn in sales, Paxil took $11.6bn, and Wellbutrin sales were $5.9bn during the years covered by the settlement, according to IMS Health, a data group that consults for drug makers.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/03/glaxosmithkline-fined-bribing-doctors-pharmaceuticals

[nationalize the fed]

1. excellent post

there are many of examples of this

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox&q=pharmaceutical+bribes

These people should be in jail, instead they are bribing gov officials to mandate purchases- with money earned from bribes

[AuntPatsy]

2. Kicking another horrific issue not going away...

[Act_of_Reparation]

3. Who is in denial about what?

The industry's solicitation of doctors isn't exactly breaking news. I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't know about shenanigans.

[beam me up scottie]

9. Science-based medicine is about money, "alternative" medicine is about love, puppies and kittens.

There is no denial, some folks just prefer to lie about critics of quacks while giving woo a pass.

I think somebody pissed on Dr. Oz's GMO cornflakes so why not dredge up an article from 2012 and pretend others are in "denial" about it?

[Act_of_Reparation]

13. That's the feeling that I get from these bullshit fear-mongering threads.

Big Pharma behaves badly. So we should all stop taking our meds and drag our naked asses across the ground while Dr. Oz brews us up an organic lemongrass chai latte with non-pasteurized green coffee bean infused goat's milk.

As if "alternative medicine" isn't itself a huge fucking industry.

[beam me up scottie]

15. Dr. Oz sure has a lot of fans on DU.

Who knew criticizing a Republican Millionaire would enrage so many liberals?

Maybe it's because he's good looking?

[KittyWampus]

16. And yet DU'ers obsess over one on a daily basis and ignore the other. Why is that?

[beam me up scottie]

18. Because we can't have nice things?

Or it could be that Oz is in the spotlight this week.

I dunno.

[NCTraveler]

4. "It is a wonder how some people are in such denial about this. "

I have never met anyone in denial about this.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. One of the reasons I will only take older established meds with a good history.

Those Pharma sales reps show up at my Med. Clinic all the time.
Fortunately I have a nice female doc willing to work with me on needed meds.
But I know some of her other patients and she will prescribe the latest newest meds to them.

Pushing meds is about all the Family Med. docs seem to do. Anything that cannot be addressed by a pill they refer out.

[Initech]

6. John Oliver annihilated the pharmaceutical marketing industry a few weeks ago.

[appalachiablue]

7. K & R

[951-Riverside]

8. I'll have to reserve judgement on this until I hear from Neil deGrasse Tyson

Personally I don't know why the anti-pharma crowd are so up in arms against this, medicine is proven science.

[NuclearDem]

10. ...

You need better shtick.

[NuclearDem]

11. Yeah, nobody denies this.

As I told you in the other thread, this is an economics issue, not a science issue. That pharmaceutical companies bribe doctors doesn't make magic coffee beans effective treatment for cancer, or Oz any less of a quack.

[beam me up scottie]

12. So this is about Oz?

And you're the infamous denier of the op's truthiness?



BIG PHARMA SHILL!1!

[KittyWampus]

14. No, it's about the flaming hypocrisy. Where is the daily outrage thread about doctors

taking bribes from pharmaceuticals?

Where is the daily outrage thread about the countless thousands of women who got breast cancer from taking premarin?

[beam me up scottie]

17. Oh, you're the one in charge of Daily Outrage.

Who do I see about the large poisonous spider my cat just brought me?

Is that your department?

[WinkyDink]

20. You think only doctors can be bribed, and not researchers? LOL!

[NuclearDem]

21. Could you point out where I said that?

Because as far as I can tell, you just erected a ridiculous strawman out of thin air.

[Jesus Malverde]

19. Oh oh your gonna annoy the "it's science" crowd.

The prosecution said the company paid $275,000 to Dr Drew Pinsky, who hosted a popular radio show, to promote the drug on his programme, in particular for unapproved uses – GSK claimed it could treat weight gain, sexual dysfunction, ADHD and bulimia.

Pinsky, who had not declared his GSK income to listeners, said Wellbutrin could give women 60 orgasms a night. A study of 25 people using the drug for eight weeks was pushed by a PR firm hired by GSK, generating headlines including "Bigger than Viagra? It sounds too good to be true: a drug to help you stop smoking, stay happy and lose weight" and "Now That is a Wonder Drug".

[NuclearDem]

22. ...

[mother earth]

23. With TPP it is only going to get far worst. K & R nt