In very few places other than the fucked-up right-wing Bizarro World of psychiatry would it be considered acceptable for Big Pharma to pay doctors to promote a drug without these payments being disclosed.
Dr. Charles Nemeroff is a psychiatrist at Emory University who is reportedly an expert on depression. But now he's under fire for getting paid millions by Paxil maker GlaxoSmithKline to give what Glaxo calls "product talks."
In response to a U.S. Senate investigation, the university admitted that Nemeroff failed to disclose "substantial speaking fees from pharmaceutical companies to Emory." As a result of this scandal, Nemeroff stepped aside as head of Emory's psychiatry department - and the National Institutes of Health froze funding for a depression study by Nemeroff.
Have the payoffs to Nemeroff compromised his research? Well, a popular book that describes numerous drugs and their supposed benefits has a chapter on Paxil coauthored by Nemeroff. The chapter seems to portray Paxil as a miracle drug, a cure for all that ails this big, mean world that the psychiatric industry doesn't understand.
Nemeroff praises Paxil despite the fact that Paxil has actually been found to have serious side effects including suicidal behavior.
It's not known how many more stories like this there'll have to be before Big Pharma has to clean up its act once and for all.
(Source: http://badpsych.com;
http://justana-justana.blogspot.com/2008/12/charles-nemeroff-paxilseroxat-good-for.html)
Monday, December 22, 2008
Psychiatrist probed for Paxil payoffs
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One day these poisone will be banned from the market.
ReplyDeletePaxil is an SSRI poison. These Psyche docs need to stop taking pay-offs.
Thank you for using my post as a reference.
ReplyDeleteIt's so hard to raise awareness on this scandal that sometimes I feel like I'm doing nothing.
It's good to know that we are being heard.
And yes!
SSRIs are poison.