The
Intersection of Antipsychotics, Psychiatry & the
Law |
Antipsychotic
drugs have emerged as the blockbusters of the pharmaceutical
industry- and Seroquel leads the pack. This year's $500 million
settlement between AstraZeneca and the Department of Justice marks
the third historic settlement in less than a year and a half. Will
fines over $4 billion decrease the illegal marketing of
antipsychotics? What role does psychiatry play in this
scenario?
Tonight 7:00 p.m. on the Philadelphia CNN-News affiliate WFMZ-TV,
The American Law Journal presents
"Antipsychotics: The Intersection of the Law, Psychiatry
& Big Pharma." A panel of lawyers and doctors join
host and former New Jersey prosecutor Christopher
Naughton.
Joseph DiGiacomo, M.D., internist, cardiologist,
psychiatrist and clinical professor with the University of
Pennsylvania's School of Psychiatry, says "These drugs
initially were miracle drugs. People poured out of hospitals
[where] before... they had no chance. The second generation
antipsychotics also had fewer side effects, which has lead to their
use on a larger scale today."
"We have no problem with the right people getting this drug," says
plaintiff's lawyer Brian McCormick of
Sheller, P.C., the firm representing
whistleblowers in the three largest pharma settlements in U.S.
history in the past eighteen months. "But the drug doesn't reach
the [financial] level that it has just by being sold to cases where
there are no other options. They are being marketed to a much wider
market."
In addition to McCormick and DiGiacomo, guest
appearances include Joseph Goldberg, corporate
defense counsel and partner with Weber Gallagher Simpson
Stapleton Fires & Newby and Daniel
Edmunds, Ed.D., psychotherapist, author and founder of the
International Center for Humane Psychiatry.
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