Picturing somebody trying to read eleven million documents simply tells me that Lilly tried to send the plaintiffs' legal team on a wild goose chase to find a few needles in a haystack and apparently some diligent attorneys were up to the task because they caught the goose and found the needles.
But there must be a lot more needles to find because Lilly is showing signs of outright paranoia and desperation in wanting those documents out of the public domain. In fact, on December 19, 2006, Lilly got the court to issue an Order for Mandatory Injunction directed at Mr Gottstein which states in relevant part:
Mr. Gottstein shall immediately, upon receipt of this Order, provide to Special Master Woodin and the parties a listing of all persons, organizations or entities to whom any documents covered by this Order, or any subset thereof, were provided.
Mr. Gottstein shall, within 24 hours of this Order, identify to Special Master Woodin and the parties, by specific bates stamp, those the particular documents to any person, organization or entity noted above, which shall also include the date and location such documents were disseminated.
Mr. Gottstein shall immediately take steps to retrieve any documents subject to this Order, regardless of their current location, and return all such documents to Special Master Woodin. This shall include the removal of any such documents posted at any website.
Mr. Gottstein shall take immediate steps to preserve, until further Order of the Court, all documents, voice mails, emails, materials, and information, including, but not limited to all communications, that refer to, relate to or concern Dr. Egilman or any other efforts to obtain documents produced by Eli Lilly and Company.
For his part, Mr Gottstein is not an attorney in the lawsuit in which Lilly got the judge to allow the company to hide the documents in the first place. He obtained them in another case and therefore, he surely would not be covered by any protective order.
Mr Gottstein is an advocate for patient rights and sits at the helm of, "The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights)," a public interest law firm that has mounted a legal campaign against forced psychiatric drugging all around the country.
His only interest in disclosing the documents appears to be a noble one; to alert unwitting doctors and Zyprexa patients about the high risk of injuries and death associated with the drug that Lilly has been successfully concealing for a decade. However, it now looks like Lilly's has not been acting alone, but rather with a few accomplices embedded in the US court system.
Mr Gottstein legal pursuits do not involve chasing the almighty dollar; his organization helps people who ordinarily have little or no money. For instance, earlier this year Mr Gottstein won a landmark case before the Alaskan Supreme Court that found Alaska's forced drugging regime to be unconstitutional, in Myers v Alaska Psychiatric Institute, 138 P3d 238 (Alaska 2006).
Mr Gottstein says he took on this case because he was concerned about the rights of those people who find the drugs like Zyprexa both unhelpful and intolerable. "No other field of medicine allows this sort of forced treatment," he points out.
"For people who want to try non-drug approaches," he explains, "the research is very clear that many will have much better long-term outcomes, including complete recovery after being diagnosed with serious mental illness."
He says the massive forced drugging is turning many patients into drooling zombies and preventing them from going on to live the full lives they could otherwise enjoy.
On appeal, Mr Gottstein argued that the provisions governing authorization of treatment with psychotropic medications violate the Alaska Constitution's guarantees of liberty and privacy and the Supreme Court agreed.
"In our view," the Court wrote, "before a state may administer psychotropic drugs to a non-consenting mentally ill patient in a non-emergency setting, an independent judicial best interests determination is constitutionally necessary to ensure that the proposed treatment is actually the least intrusive means of protecting the patient."
In its decision, the Court addressed the class of drugs known as psychotropic medications. "Because psychotropic medication can have profound and lasting negative effects on a patient's mind and body," the Court stated, "Alaska's statutory provisions permitting nonconsensual treatment with psychotropic medications implicate fundamental liberty and privacy interests."
Zyprexa off label promotion scandal is all over the news now.
Lilly drug reps are alleged to have called their marketing ploy,"Viva zyprexa".
Eli Lilly zyprexa cost me over $250.00 a month supply out of my own pocket X 4 years and has up to ten times the risk (over non users) of causing diabetes and severe weight gain.
Zyprexa which 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 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.
Only 9 percent of adult Americans think the pharmaceutical industry can be trusted right around the same rating as big tobacco.
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Daniel Haszard www.zyprexa-victims.com
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Danny Haszard (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 52 comments)
on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 1:50:52 AM
Eli Lilly say's,leaked documents don't convey the 'whole picture' but what is compelling is that zyprexa is the 7th some say 5th largest drug sell in the world and Eli Lilly's #1 by their own admission.
This is for a drug that can be $2.50 a pill and won't get you high,and is only FDA approved for 1% of the population.
Somebody in Lilly land is pushing zyprexa hard. Daniel Haszard
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Danny Haszard (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 52 comments)
on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 1:56:02 AM
