Word: breggin
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...accepting money from large drug companies, Breggin said, the American Psychiatric Association took part in an unhealthy partnership that biased them to use often poorly-tested and unnecessary drugs...
...Breggin mentioned the tremendous popularity of Prozac and Ritalin as an example of this trend and said that any criticism of the drugs has been very quiet...
...example, Breggin cited the first product liability case against pharmaceutical company Eli Lily, which produces Prozac, in which Prozac was blamed for a murder-suicide tragedy in Kentucky. Breggin said that although the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Eli Lily had rigged the trial, the case received little media coverage...
...Lily has gotten the newspapers to stop covering it, and it has got the courts bamboozled," Breggin said...
...fact, Breggin said, documents revealed Eli Lily found an increase in suicides among participants in its clinical trials of Prozac...