National Institutes of Health
Saphris from Schering-Plough yesterday joined the growing category of drugs that control hallucinations, hyperactivity and psychotic behavior in people diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Saphris after three clinical trials showed that the drug worked better than a placebo to prevent people with schizophrenia from hearing voices, seeing thing that do not exist or holding false beliefs. Two other clinical trials showed Saphris to be more effect than sugar pills at preventing mania and psychoses among people with bipolar I disorder.
Saphris contains the medication asenapine. As with similar medications classified as atypical antipsychotic such as AstraZeneca's Seroquel and Lilly' s Zyprexa, Saphris can cause weight gain, tics and restlessness, drowsiness, dizziness and changes in taste sensation.
Doctors should never prescribe Saphris or any other atypical antipsychotic to control psychotic symptoms in people who have Alzheimer's disease.
Comments
Eli Lilly has received the largest criminal fine ever against a drug company over their Zyprexa cash cow,add it all up comes to $4.6 billion, in Zyprexa settlements,fines,litigation.
We put Lilly products in our babies they really need to clean up their act and quit with the white wash.
Eli Lilly Zyprexa can cause diabetes
I took Zyprexa a powerful Lilly schizophrenic drug for 4 years it was prescribed to me off-label for post traumatic stress disorder was ineffective costly and gave me diabetes.
This is a powerful drug that can damage a young person physiologically for life.
Please take with caution and learn as much as you can about side effects.
Eli Lilly's #1 cash cow Zyprexa drug sale $38 billion dollars so far,has a ten times greater risk of causing type 2 diabetes over the non-user of Zyprexa.
So,here we have a conflict of interest that this same company also is a big profiteer of diabetes treatment.
Daniel Haszard Bangor Maine
h t tp://www.zyprexa-victims.com
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