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Other reports provided reassurance that many well-publicized side effects of prescription drugs are, in fact, mild. University of Pennsylvania Psychiatrist Karl Rickels told of a one-year study showing that Valium addiction is rare and comparatively easy to overcome. T. Alan Ramsey, also of Penn, challenged the view that lithium can damage kidneys, charging that such reports were based on uncontrolled studies that failed to allow for infection or other causes of disability...
...Druggist Irving Jack Kirsch, who had filled many of Presley's prescriptions.) According to the complaint against Nichopoulos, he wrote orders for 12,000 pills and vials of potent drugs for Presley in the final 20 months of the singer's life, including Quaalude, Dilaudid, Amytal, Dexedrine, Valium, Demerol, Carbrital, Placidyl and Percodan...
...Valium's maker was founded in 1896 by Fritz Hoffmann, a Basel marketing whiz whose first commercial success was a cough syrup. Though the firm became the first to synthesize vitamins, among other feats, it was the development of Valium and Librium in the early 1960s that made it a leading pharmaceutical company. While the secretive Roche has 122 facilities around the world, it did not publish its first consolidated account until 1974. The firm is publicly owned, but its chief stockholders are mostly wealthy descendants of the founders or early executives who rarely trade their gilt-edged shares...
...company plows 13% of its revenues back into research, compared with 6% or 7% at other pharmaceutical firms. Partly because of rising competition -Roche claims that up to 700 Valium imitations and substitutes are now being marketed-the company's drug sales have slipped for the past five years, and it is anxiously searching for new products...
...more oxygen to reach brain cells. Roche Researcher Willy Haefely says this could help retard senility "or sharpen the mind of an executive suffering from a hangover." He concedes that "unfortunately, we will never be able to produce geniuses with drugs." But if Roche can develop another winner like Valium, it might ease much of the anxiety at company headquarters in Basel...