The FDA and the Courts Fail to Truly Discipline the Pharmaceutical Industry for Exploiting the Mentally Ill
Can you imagine giving people who are already suffering from mental illness a drug that you know will make them worse? Sounds like something out of a sadistic horror movie. Long-term mental illness sufferers experience such torturous states of mind that they might try just about anything to escape them—from the extreme of suicide to taking just about any drug their doctor says holds the hope of helping them. It takes a particular brand of evil to exploit that condition. But that’s exactly what Pfizer did with Neurontin (also prescribed as gabapentin.)
Pfizer’s own studies showed that manic symptoms were significantly worse in bipolar patients on gabapentin than in those on a placebo, but that didn’t stop Pfizer from doing everything they could to get doctors to prescribe it off label at ver
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