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 "The New York State attorney general, eliot spitzer, said in June of that year that the company had failed to publish four of five studies it had done to test the antidepressant's effectiveness in teenagers. Taken together, the five studies showed that Paxil did not ease the children's depression. Even worse, the studies showed that the drug caused a rare, but serious, complication. Twice as many teenagers taking the drug began thinking about suicide as those who had been given the placebo. The attorney general sued the company, now known as GlaxoSmithKline, for fraud."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "The following year, the New York State Attorney General, eliot spitzer, sued GlaxoSmithKline over unpublished studies showing lack of efficacy of Paxil in children; Spitzer claimed that the company withheld information from doctors about the negative results of clinical trials it conducted on the use of Paxil in children.21 Spitzer's lawsuit alleged that GlaxoSmithKline published only one of five studies it conducted on the impact of Paxil on children and suppressed the negative results of the other studies."- Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) "Then it hit me—there was no one so feared in the industry as eliot spitzer, New York's Attorney General. He had taken on industry after industry and usually wrangled settlements out of the most hardcore executives. He had recently challenged GlaxoSmithKline using an obscure consumer-protection law, and made them post all their clinical trials for the public to see. If I could get Spitzer interested, I would have Pfizer tied in knots. I began e-mailing Spitzer information on the Genotropin situation." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) "I am not someone who generally adores persons in power, but eliot spitzer and his department had impressed me—where other regulators and law enforcemerit agents have sat on their hands, he had stepped in and gotten results. Having his department looking into Pfizer's issues felt very reassuring. The New Jersey Justice Department Calls a Meeting I knew I had to keep as many fronts open as I could. Spitzer was responsible for New York state law, not federal law, so I also wrote an e-mail to Mr." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.) |
 "In June 2004, New York attorney general eliot spitzer accused GlaxoSmithKline of 'repeated and persistent fraud' for concealing vital safety information when Seroxat, or Paxil as it is known in the US, is used in children.
According to the FDA, 2.23 million prescriptions for Paxil had been dispensed to people under the age of 17 in 2002 for a range of conditions that include depression, attention-deficit disorder, anxiety and other mood disorders.29 Spitzer's contention did not concern whether the drug was good or not, only that information had been withheld from the assessment process."- Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) "This was a year that had seen Vioxx recalled worldwide, the crusade by New York Attorney General eliot spitzer for full disclosure of clinical trial data on the antidepressant Seroxat/Paxil, and a shortage of a flu vaccine because of manufacturing irregularities. The regulators had no option but to become stricter and payers tighter if they were not going to lose the public's trust entirely." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) |
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In 2004 New York's activist attorney general, eliot spitzer, brought suit against the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. The suit centered around five clinical trials of the company's antidepressant Paxil. Seeking to expand sales, the company conducted a series of clinical trials using children who seemed anxious."- Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "Changes May Be Coming I discussed in the Tricks of the Trade chapter the lawsuit eliot spitzer brought against GlaxoSmithKline for hiding the results of studies which found their antidepressant to be associated with suicide. I did not mention that Mr. Spitzer was not just upset with GlaxoSmithKline. "Where has the FDA been all these years when clinical data has been hidden from public scrutiny? They have simply failed to confront the problem."59 It is truly remarkable what media attention can accomplish." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) |
 "Perhaps the most aggressive of these reformers — if one was a pharma attorney, the phrase was "the biggest asshole" — was eliot spitzer, the attorney general of the state of New York. Spitzer had been fighting a variety of white-collar shenanigans when, in 2004, he filed suit against Glaxo for suppressing negative data on Paxil. In doing so, Spitzer devised a novel legal strategy that had not yet occurred to Dan Troy. As Spitzer saw it, it was a case of fraud if a drug maker does not tell physicians about trials of a medication that raise concerns about safety."- Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) |
 "In June 2004, New York State Attorney General eliot spitzer brought suit against GlaxoSmithKline alleging the pharmaceutical company had engaged in persistent fraud with respect to Paxil, suppressing results of studies showing the drug was ineffective on children and also that they knew of an increased risk of suicidal behavior."- Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) |
 "A man named eliot spitzer, the Attorney General of New York State. Spitzer has aggressively pursued investigations and prosecutions into drug companies that have allegedly defrauded New York out of hundreds of millions of dollars, and he's one of the few leaders willing to stand up against the fraud, corruption, and criminal behavior of Big Pharma.
You may be curious to know where the lawsuit ended. As with nearly all such cases, it was settled out of court on August 26, 2004. The settlement details are described at: www.OAG.state.ny.us/press/2004/aug/aug26a_04_attach2."- Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "The following opening paragraphs of the press release issued by the New York State Attorney General office in June, 2004: GlaxoSmithKline Misled Doctors About the Safety of Drug Used to Treat Depression in Children State Attorney General eliot spitzer today announced a lawsuit against one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies for concealing important information about the safety and efficacy of an anti-depressant drug." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
 "The state's attorney general, eliot spitzer, has been digging into the secondary market to try to unearth how counterfeits get into the supply chain.
Most of the law enforcement attention that has been devoted to counterfeit drugs has focused on high-priced prescriptions. These are drugs like Lipitor (atorvastatin) for cholesterol control, Serostim (somatropin) for AIDS, and Epogen (epoetin alfa), Neupogen (filgrastim), and Procrit (erythropoietin) for blood disorders associated with cancer chemotherapy. What no one knows is whether the counterfeiters have penetrated the generics marketplace."- Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) |
| "It is already doing so most notably in the pharmaceutical arena: New York State's attorney-general eliot spitzer, famous for successfully indicting Wall Street fraudsters, is suing Glaxo Smith Kline for "deceiving doctors" with fraudulent drug research and for withholding negative information on drugs under development; he is doing exactly what finally brought down Big Tobacco (Nature vol. 429, June 10). It doesn't matter whether he succeeds or not—the process of raising liability on a grand scale has at least begun." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) |
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