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Its over again - A poem by Monty

It was nice while it lasted,
But now its come and gone,

Were all affected by it,
Even men that look real strong,

For women it seems a lifetime,
and for men a few short breaths,

For just 17 weeks a year,
you see laughing and song and cheer,

Oh and depending on where you frequent,
an awful lot of beer,

what is this virus, what is the reason?
C'mon boys!! Its freakin football season!

Monty

Rolling Stone article on Zyprexa

WOW!!!

Did anybody get to read the new Rollin Stone article on Zyprexa???

Man, If you did not then I am ordering you to!! It is very comprehensive and well written and best of all its true!

This is a great blow and I will tell you why I say this, I participate on a weekly radio show in Tampa Fl on prescription drugs and we regularly speak in outrage about this and other Atypical drugs, and sometimes it gets sorta old as I think that its just Nicole and Larry and I speaking on and on and on about the disaster that these drugs have caused and the lies that were told to get them as popular as they are today, BUT – With this article it shows me that AMERICA cares and that we are making a difference if only small and that people are waking up to the fact that these drugs are killing the elderly and causing suicides and causing diabetes in normal healthy people.

And for what... $$$ that's what it all about.

Anyhoo – Not to bore you but let me just give you a few quotes from it... To whet your desire..


“Zyprexa was created to treat schizophrenia, but it wound up being used on depressed moms and misbehaving kids. How one of the nation's biggest pharmaceutical companies turned a flawed, dangerous pill into a multi-billion-dollar bonanza — and who paid the price.”

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"It was a very clever sort of con," says Dr. Peter Tyrer, a leading psychiatric researcher at Imperial College in London who wrote in the latest issue of the respected medical journal The Lancet about a new study that debunks the effectiveness of the atypicals. "Almost the whole scientific community was conned into thinking — as a consequence of good marketing — that this was a different and better set of drugs. The evidence, as it's all added up, has shown this to be untrue."


Well??? Need I say more.. read the article!!!

I want people to call up our radio show and give me their comments this weekend on this article, go to http://www.prescriptionaddictionradio.com/



Later - Monty

Waiting... A poem by Montana

Waiting

When oh when will you finally unfurl,

I wait and wait, Not even a referral,

I feel like I’m being painted, a part of some mural,

Like a woman at the salon waiting to have curls,

I realize you are different from the rest of the girls,

Its as if I’m the daylight and you are nocturnal

Or you a republican and I am a Liberal

I dress my self in black as if off to a funeral,

This day that’s just come has all been a swirl

But then in retrospect the week feels like eternal

and again I find myself waiting...

www.Shop to earn.net

Hey everybody!

I got something new for my blog today...

Recently I signed up for a thing called Shop to earn and I like it. Its a cool program that alot of my friends have gotten into recently and are making good money from it.

the website is look at is http://www.24hourtour.net/

And to sign up is www.shoptoearn.net/shopmonty

I like it as you sign up and do your purchasing through your website and then get money from it! Its really that simple. There are hundreds of websites to choose from and I think that its a pretty cool thing!

Most people might be skeptical about it but you know what thats fine, i was too but the proof is in the pudding.

Anyhoo - Wanted to share it - thought it could be cool!

Later - Monty

Zyprexa = Fraud = Death

Eli Lilly & Co. taught its sales force a catchy slogan to peddle the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa for treating the elderly.

Company salespeople told care providers that 5 milligrams of Zyprexa at 5 p.m. — or "5 at 5" — would help dementia patients sleep.

Only problem: Regulators never approved selling the drug for dementia, and federal prosecutors say marketing like that led to a record $1.42 billion settlement with Lilly announced Thursday.

The Indianapolis company agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of introducing misbranded drugs into interstate commmerce and pay $615 million to resolve the criminal case.
It also agreed to pay roughly $800 million to resolve a civil case. The company said in a statement it admits no wrongdoing in that case.

Zyprexa is Lilly's top-selling product, a drug that rakes in more than $4 billion a year. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved marketing it to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

But court documents show Lilly sales representatives also pushed it to treat generalized sleep disorder, aggression, Alzheimer's-related dementia and depression, among other unapproved uses, from 1999 through 2003. Doctors can prescribe drugs for unapproved uses, but companies aren't allowed to market drugs for those uses.

"The company made hundreds of millions of dollars by trying to convince health care providers that Zyprexa was safe for unapproved uses," said Laurie Magid, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

In 1999, Lilly started pushing the drug in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities. Sales reps said the weight gain caused by Zyprexa was actually a "therapeutic benefit," according to papers filed with the criminal case.

The drugmaker also marketed Zyprexa to primary-care doctors, even though the company knew there were "virtually" no approved uses for the drug in that market, the documents state. It trained salespeople to focus on symptoms rather than Zyprexa's approved uses.
At one point, Lilly had thousands of sales representatives involved in marketing the drug for unapproved uses, Magid said.

In 2006, the FDA approved a severe, "black box" warning tying Zyprexa to an increased risk of death in elderly patients, mainly from heart problems and infections.
Magid said Lilly was responsible for "putting thousands and thousands of patients at risk."
"Off-label marketing circumvents the very process put in place to protect the public," she said.
Lilly Chief Executive John Lechleiter said in a statement his company "deeply regrets the past actions covered by the misdemeanor plea."

On the civil side, Lilly will pay $438 million to settle allegations that it caused invalid claims to be submitted to government programs like Medicaid and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

The company will pay $361.8 million to state Medicaid programs, too.
Six former sales representatives helped trigger the government's investigation into Lilly. Those whistleblowers will share $78.8 million as part of the civil settlement, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Lilly also signed onto a corporate integrity agreement as part of the civil settlement. That calls for reviews by outside companies and more training for all U.S. employees, among other things, spokeswoman Angela Sekston said.
She said Lilly has a strong compliance program and is "fully committed" to the agreement as well.

Aside from Thursday's settlement, Lilly also has spent roughly $1.2 billion to resolve 32,000 claims related to Zyprexa product liability. About 125 cases are still pending.
For instance, a group of insurance companies, unions and others are suing Lilly for billions, saying it broke marketing laws and overcharged for the drug.

Lilly said in October it would set aside the $1.42 billion it agreed to pay Thursday and take that amount as a charge in its third-quarter earnings report. That led to Lilly's first quarterly loss in three years.

I am glad that this is taking place but am outraged by another failure by the FDA and also the fact that Lilly can walk away unscathed like this when there actions could have resulted in the deaths of innocent people.

Find out more on http://www.prescriptionaddictionradio.com/ and listen in live this Sunday where we will discuss this further.

Later - Monty

What is Scientology?

You know I figured that the best way to explain what Scientology was, would be by showing you what it is to me and what I have gotten from it after doing it these years.

I am a young man so my take on it might not matter to some but in my 25 years I have seen a lot.

I am from Los Angeles and now live in somewhat boring (or “calm” as me mum would put it) Clearwater, Florida.

I grew up skateboarding and still do actually – not as much as I would like to but hey that’s a different topic. ;)

My parents are Scientologists so I was born into it but was a rebel until the age of about 15 and did not consider myself much of anything.

My parents did not force it upon me and 100% let me come to my decision as to what it was and if I wanted to subscribe to that train of thought or not. When I was about 8 years of age I was bit quite badly by a dog of mine, who actually was basically a best friend of mine. Unfortunately after that happened I was VERY scared of dogs which really bothered me as I loved them but was scared of them.

I was offered to receive some Scientology counseling when I was about 9 in regards to what happened with the dog but did not want it, I then took up the offer a year after that and went to a Dianetics seminar at the Celebrity Center International in Los Angeles CA and it cost me about $20.00 if I remember (my mother paid obviously) and at first I did not really care but was just there for the hell of it, we were learning about the book Dianetics and how to do the therapy in that book on each other. I must admit that I was not really paying much attention to the person sitting across from me until he was asking for a fear that I had and I remember reluctantly talking about dogs.

I am soooooo glad that I did say that as we tackled first and foremost my fear of dogs and within 1 hour of doing that I was feeling great and later that day when I was leaving there was a man with a seeing eye dog and I remember hugging the dog with no reservation and was crying I was so happy as I wanted to for so long but had this irrational fear that stopped me.

That for me sold me on it and since then I love dogs and take care of them often. In fact I will be moving into a nice house soon with a dog and I am very excited.

I am not a professional at explaining things and so I am not even trying to do that – I just want to put my honest experience with Scientology out there for anyone to read.

The other basic principles about the church are great as nothing is ram-rodded down your throat as to what to believe and what not to – one of the things that we believe is “what’s true for you is true for you” in that regard if you believe something to be a certain way then fine that’s what you think and we do not make you feel little for thinking it.

The basics skills of communication and the way that people act and think to me are amazing and I use them in my daily life all the time. I use them all the time in my work, life, girlfriends etc. It really does help me out.

So that is why I like Scientology – It has helped me out for many years and I am sure it will continue to do so for many more to come.

Later - Monty