Occasionally the good guys win big, and that happened yesterday when the US Senate killed S 3297, the Coburn Cloture Bill, which contained the Mother’s Act Bill and 36 unrelated measures. Sixty votes were needed to close debate and bring the bill to a final vote. It received only 52 votes — there were 40 votes against. Considering the volume of faxes, letters and phone calls to the senators coming from people like me who wanted nothing to do with forcing pregnant women to take psychiatric drugs.

This is a BIG win for every mother and mother-to-be in the United …

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The Oregon State Department of Justice published this press release on July 16. This was a medicaid fraud settlement based on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s antipsychotic drug Abilify being used for kids and the elderly when it wasn’t approved by the FDA for that, yet it was aggressively marketed for those uses, including bribes paid to psychiatrists to get them to prescribe it.

Psychiatry and Big Pharma are deep in each others’ pockets.

When Bristol-Myers Squibb says “Jump!” instead of asking, “How High”?” psychiatrists ask only “How much will you pay me?”

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the great State of Georgia is getting about $12.1 Million as its share of the $449 Million settlement from Bristol-Myers Squibb in the federal government’s (and 43 states’) suits against the company for fraudulent marketing and pricing of prescription drugs for Medicaid. Payments went out Tuesday for the settlement, which happened in September.

The allegations were that the companies made false claims about the drugs and their prices, driving up the sales and prices of the drugs. They also paid what amount to kickbacks to doctors (mainly psychiatrists) who prescribed their drugs for uses not …

There’s a new blog on the Side Effects of Antidepressant & Anti-psychotic drugs. Big Pharma isn’t going to like this one, as it tells the horror stories of people who have lost relatives through the side effects of the antidepressant and anti-psychotic drugs which have made the drug companies so rich. In particular there’s a story about the side effects of Zyprexa killing one person’s elderly mother that was quite touching.

If you know anyone who is having trouble with side effects of psychiatric drugs, send them to that blog and have them tell their story. It could save …