While drugs help some, they harm others. They saved my husband’s life (from Wegener’s Granulomatosis), but almost killed my son (off-label, reckless prescription of Risperdal). The final result: the public increasingly is losing trust in pharmaceuticals and the M.D.’s who prescribe them. The public no longer trusts the FDA, as they suspect 1) money changes hands to get drugs to market quickly and/or 2) their work is sloppy and careless. And once a drug has been approved by the FDA, any M.D. can prescribe it for any purpose, whether that M.D. knows anything about neurology or not! It is a recipe for disaster, which is precisely what we are seeing.

J&J owns 250 subsidiary companies. With That kind of money they can Afford to have individual Lawyers follow their sales reps around.

Potentially devastating financially?

J&J has more money than God.

The three Harvard musketeers responsible for the over 4000% Increase in Diagnoses of Kiddie Bipolar which Doc pointed out, were led by a guy who claimed, on the stand, that Above his own exalted Short Fuse, Bipolar Tantrums involving Research Funding to peddle antipsychotics to CHILDREN, there was, Only God.

Those Harvard musketeers bagged themselves a kool $4.2 Personal MILLIONS to peddle antipsychotics, to CHILDREN.

Google up the Frontline video series titled, “The Medicated Child” and watch the neurologic damage those kids are exhibiting from J&J’s sales reps & researchers following ‘appropriate guidelines’.

You sound like a pharma troll fella. The industry most definitely benefited from the excessive sales of atypical anti psychotics to CHILDREN for bipolar disorder. Bipolar wasn’t even possible in children until the updated versions of the DSM4. The industry at the very least set up the environment where pushing off label use was rewarded and at most encouraged the practice outright. The corrupt association between psychiatry and pharma goes back 20 years at least.
Children suffer because of this corruption, wake up and smell the koolaid Jack

These companies are filled with different personalities and people with unique situations. It can’t have Lawyers following each rep around. And when the companies see or hear about problems, they usually take immediate action to resolve them - it’s in their best interests. They are very good at policing themselves, overall.

Although I am not aware of the circumstances surrounding the issues here, and there may have been something done wrong on the part of the company and/or the rep/supervisor, it’s my opinion that a few bad apples shouldn’t upset the entire apple cart. Pharmaceutical companies, and their constituencies including Physicians and Hospitals, do good things for people! Think about that when you need a drug or a diagnostic tool when your life, or the life/health of your children, friends, and family are on the line.