Eli Lilly ZYPREXA for Teens?

[Anonymous]

Zyprexa may get OK for teen use
Indianapolis Star, United States -
Eli Lilly and Co.'s best-selling schizophrenia drug Zyprexa is poised to get US approval for treating adolescents diagnosed with mental illness.

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Arkansas AG's lawsuit could deliver $90m jackpot for TX lawyers
Legal News Line, DC -
McDaniel is now the ninth state AG to sue Lilly for this so-called "off-label" marketing of its blockbuster drug Zyprexa. McDaniel told the Arkansas ...

Zyprexa Use by Children

Zyprexa, as well as the other atypical antipsychotics, is being prescribed for children, even though this is an unapproved, off-label use. Eli Lilly has been charged in allegedly pushing the drug for children in more than one state.

Recently a parent wrote to us about her two sons. She received pressure to place them on ADHD drugs as early as Head Start. Over the years, they were on a ******tail of various psychotropic drugs. At one time, they were place on Zyprexa and according to the mother more than doubled their body weight.

A report by Dr. Cooper at Vanderbilt University states that 2.5 million children are now taking atypical antipsychotics. Over half are being given them for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Perhaps it is statistics like these that caused the FDA to finally require warnings on the labels of the ADHD drugs.
The use of atypical antipsychotics for children should be banned.

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Daniel Haszard www.zyprexa-victims.com

http://www.profitableharm.com/zyprexa%20.html


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In a psychiatric program I was forced into I was put on this medication when I was a teenager .And a lot of other teenagers in that hospital were also prescribed this drug. I know the girls hated it the most because it caused severe weight gain. They start you at 2.5mg the smallest pill, or even break it in half because it's that strong. It's the strongest drug I've had in my life and I've tried a lot of them. 2.5mg will knock you out for 12 hours. So I was falling asleep at 3pm before visiting time so my family got to visit a drueling passed out kid, but they believed everything those people told them. Soon I had 10 disorders and 15 medications. Zyprexa though was the strongest. The second strongest was xanax which didn't even come close. Over time you build a resistance to the Zyprexa and they increase your dose. Within a few months I went from 1 x 2.5 MG to 4 X 2.5MG ultimately peaking at 1 X 25MG (largest pill) before bedtime. It knocked me out so completely I could not be awakened. At one program they dragged me out of bed and were screaming in my ears and I didn't wake up and don't remember it, this is what they told me. It's a very strong medication.  I don't believe in the psychiatric system anymore because they screwed me over very bad and that is a whole other story. But I am surprised to see this on Bloomberg this morning that Eli Lilly is trying to get Zyprexa approved for teens. Because it was over five years ago that they were handing this stuff out like candy to teens and even kids. I think it's ironic that a parent can have you sent up the river for taking a drug such as marijuana or cocaine and then at the same time a system that forces you on so many medications that you are higher than you ever were on street drugs. They don't have insurance for street drugs that ensure you stay high 24/7 like the psychiatric model does. Eventually I got sick of it and refused to take my meds starting with XANAX since that one really fucked with my memory a lot. Who would think some druggy kid would get tired of being high all the time? lol It gets old after a couple months, and the silliness of being forced into treatment only to be forced to be high all the time and then come to a personal realization I can't be this way.. the irony just cracks me up inside. Nobody seems to understand the true workings because so many people believe in these systems. The only people who need drugs like these are like .005% of the population. I met them in adult programs they are the kind of adult who screams at demons and shits their pants. Sure give this shit to them if it helps them. But don't sell it to everyone and their mother just to make a buck. This shit was devastating to a lot of people I knew, especially girls. I am talking about 100 pound weight gain in a couple months type of change. The only reason I didn't balloon like that was because i was in locked down programs without choice to eat what I wanted. I could go on for a while about this topic but I think either you get it or you don't, it's hard to convince people of things they don't want to believe. It's comforting to know they were feeding us drugs that weren't even authorized for us though. And they were giving me the maximuym dose of 25mg those crazy motherfuckers. Parents need to be careful who they believe even if it's a team of the top psychiatrist in the hospital, a social worker and a team of nurses. They can still be wrong folks.

[Anonymous]

the same thing applies for all sorts of other drugs.

unitll recently, prozac was not approved for kids, nor was mellaril. i was on both of those drugs for a year when i was 7 years old (94').

my sister is 16 and she was perscribed a cocktail of provigil, straterra, effexor and lexapro for years.

doctors simply dont care when there getting paid. the hypocratic oath is more like the hypocritic oath now.

[Anonymous]

This whole concept of "off label" prescriptions should be illegal. A shrink I know very well does this all the time, either prescribing drugs for things they were not approved for, or prescribing unapproved excessive dosages.

This "off label" use of psychotropic drugs is apparently very common in modern psychiatry.

So why can't these same doctors write "off label" marijuana prescriptions to treat ADD, anxiety or whatever other problem they have diagnosed? Oh yeah, because a marijuana prescription does nothing to help Big Pharma companies meet their quarterly numbers or boost their stock price.

[Karass]

I think it's ironic that a parent can have you sent up the river for taking a drug such as marijuana or cocaine and then at the same time a system that forces you on so many medications that you are higher than you ever were on street drugs. They don't have insurance for street drugs that ensure you stay high 24/7 like the psychiatric model does.

Eventually I got sick of it and refused to take my meds starting with XANAX since that one really fucked with my memory a lot. Who would think some druggy kid would get tired of being high all the time? lol It gets old after a couple months, and the silliness of being forced into treatment only to be forced to be high all the time and then come to a personal realization I can't be this way.. the irony just cracks me up inside.

Parents need to be careful who they believe even if it's a team of the top psychiatrist in the hospital, a social worker and a team of nurses. They can still be wrong folks.

This is one of the most bizarre psychoses of modern society -- the promotion of massive drug use at the same time that we have commercials on TV saying "just say no" and "this is your brain on drugs."

Sometimes it gets ridiculously absurd, like the PV survivor who wrote that she was not really a druggy when she got there, but they zonked her out on Haldol and who knows what else and then accused her in group of being addicted to exactly the stuff they were force-feeding her.

We are a consumer society and we are strongly encouraged to consume. The American economy depends on it. Apparently we are also a nation of drug addicts, and we are strongly encouraged to consume those too.

If you're not yet a drug addict, you need to become one. Lots of ads in the media and on the internet will bombard you with it until you do. Are you uncomfortable in social situations? Do you have trouble sleeping at night? Do you have trouble with erections?

Whatever your problem is, we have got a drug for you. The American economy depends on your cooperation.