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"Taking zyprexa continued to help me sleep, something which my doctor didn't want to believe. Zyprexa's indication is not sleepiness, but schizophrenia. What he did not understand was that zyprexa calmed down my first-line brainstem, which is why I slept through the nights and got the rest I badly needed. I started doing a little better, but still I remained being constantly overwhelmed in my life and not being able to experience anything good." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"The antipsychotic zyprexa, the seventh best-selling drug in the world in 2005, was responsible for 30 percent of Lilly's revenues that year.12 Effexor accounted for 18 percent of Wyeth's revenues in 2005.13 The antipsychotic Risperdal was Johnson & Johnson's second best-selling drug in 2004. And in 2004, the psychiatric drugs Zoloft, Seroquel, Celexa, and Lexapro were each the number-one or the number-two best-selling products of their respective manufacturers." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"A single antidepressant such as Zoloft has grossed more than $3 billion a year, as has been the case with the single antipsychotic zyprexa (the majority of zyprexa is purchased via government agencies such as Medicaid). Recentiy, another parallel between the military-industrial complex and the psychopharmaceutical-industrial one has become more apparent." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"In these instances, along with Redux, Paxil, Propulsid, zyprexa, and others, we owe the plaintiff's bar a debt of gratitude for forcing the fda toward regulatory remedies. Before you assume that I applaud the plaintiff's bar indiscriminately, I can assure you that I am well aware of and wont to condemn its excesses. The reference that discusses the negative psychological effects of labeling a well person as hypercholesterolemic is by Brett (1991)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Other second-generation drugs that came on the scene after clozapine—including Risperdal, zyprexa, and Seroquel—bypass the already mentioned side effects but pose a whole new dilemma: weight gain and metabolic changes linked to an increased risk of high cholesterol and diabetes. Beyond the known side effects, there is question about the relative effectiveness of these drugs. According to a 2006 study published in the Archives of General Psychology, there was no reported clinical advantage to the more expensive and highly touted second-generation antipsychotics when compared with the first." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"He took Zoloft, an antidepressant; zyprexa, an antipsychotic; and two one-milligram tablets of Xanax, an antianxiety medicine, and then went to bed. A short time later he got into his car and began driving. Just before 10:00 a.m., Mr. Little ran his car into a vehicle stopped at a stop sign. When he got out of his car to talk to the other driver, his vehicle began rolling forward and nearly hit the other car again. According to the driver of the other car, Mr. Little had trouble climbing out of his car. He hung on to the car door for support. Minutes after the first accident, Mr." - 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.) "Studies have shown these antipsychotic drugs, including zyprexa and Risperdal, do not help patients with Alzheimer's. Instead, the drugs appear to increase their risk of death. In the late 1980s, doctors began prescribing Tambocor and Enkaid, which were approved to treat irregular heartbeats, to patients who did not have these symptoms but had suffered heart attacks. Years later a government study showed that the drugs almost tripled the death rate among such patients. In his 1995 book Deadly Medicine, Thomas J." - 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.)

"Solomon reports, "I have been on, in various combinations and at various doses, Zoloft, Paxil, Navane, Effexor, Wellbutrin, Serzone, BuSpar, zyprexa, Dexedrine, Xanax, Valium, Ambien, and Viagra," and he adds that a specific "cocktail" (Solomon's term) of Effexor, Wellbutrin, BuSpar, and zyprexa allowed him to write The Noonday Demon. Solomon strongly believes that for himself and others who suffer from serious depression, medication is usually required." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"In particular, a class of agents called "atypical antipsychotics"—Risperdal, Clozaril, and zyprexa are the best known—had been shown in early clinical studies to be far superior to the Haldols and the Thorazines. Overnight, it seemed, almost all patients were converted to these new drugs, as well as new-generation antidepressants and mood stabilizers. It was not at all unusual for my clients to be taking three, four, five, or six different types of psychiatric drugs in a given day—a combination not unlike the number of street drugs many of them had once been addicted to." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The anti-psychotic zyprexa, for example, has been implicated in causing weight gain and diabetes. With increased weight, there is increased diabetes. Little research has been done on the long-term impact of Type-2 diabetes on children, over their life span. The chronic complications that follow tend to happen ten to fifteen years after the onset. This means that life-limiting complications such as kidney disease, heart disease, stroke, and blindness are now hitting people in the prime of their lives, in the middle of their most productive years." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Any casual attendee simply passing through the exhibit spaces can grab enough Zoloft pens, Viagra calendars, and zyprexa coffee cups to last a decade. Major international conferences, such as the World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, feature bizarre installations to promote the drugs. At the Berlin conference in 2001, Eli Lilly set up what were described as "fun houses" to draw the attention of physicians to their products. In one fun house, called "Prozac," a huge mouselike creature sat in front of a blank TV screen." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The company has been under federal and state investigation for its marketing practices for zyprexa. Lilly is not alone. Almost every major drug company is being investigated criminally or civilly for alleged efforts to promote their drugs beyond their approved uses." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Zyprexa, at $8 per pill, is Lilly's new antipsychotic drug, and its leading money-maker.8 Seventy percent of the $2.63 billion in sales comes from U.S. government Medicaid spending. But since this obviously isn't adequate profit for Lilly, the company managed to keep hidden for a considerable time the link that shows zyprexa is causing Type 2 diabetes. Can you guess what Lilly's second-leading money maker is...? Surprise! Drugs for treating diabetes. Talk about CREATING a market!" - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"The patented mental health drugs embedded within this model program include: Risperdal, zyprexa, Seroquel, Geodone, Depakote, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Wellbutrin, Zyban, Remeron, Serzone, Effexor, BuSpar, Adderall and Prozac, all manufactured by the above companies. 8. TMAP concluded that the atypical antipsychotic medications Risperdal, produced by Janssen Pharmaceutica, zyprexa produced by Eli Lilly, and Seroquel, produced by AstraZeneca, are the drugs of choice for all first, second and third-line treatments for Schizophrenia. 9." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"What he did not understand was that zyprexa calmed down my first-line brainstem, which is why I slept through the nights and got the rest I badly needed. I started doing a little better, but still I remained being constantly overwhelmed in my life and not being able to experience anything good. After another four months I found myself again sleepless most nights and in a constant struggle with my therapist, whom I perceived as doing everything wrong all the time. I was stuck in another depression. Then 4.25 mg Prozac were prescribed to me in addition to 0.6 mg zyprexa daily." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"Their widespread use is well documented; in 2003, zyprexa (chemical name, olanzapine), was sixth in retail sales in the United States. The advantage of second generation drugs is that they have fewer side effects, especially those that produce the dreaded Parkinson-like symptoms. The problem is that 39% of all patients develop agranulocytosis (a decrease in white blood cells)51 which leads to death in about 1.3% of all cases. Other problems include increases in diabetes and significant weight gain. All this considered: Are they effective in treatment?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"In late 2006, a scandal erupted when a plaintiff's lawyer from Alaska sent internal company documents obtained during a court case against Eli Lilly, the maker of zyprexa, to a reporter at the New York Times. The newspaper reported that the documents, which included e-mail, marketing material, sales projections, and scientific reports, showed that the company had hidden information about the drug's potential to cause severe side effects." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "When the authors of the Journal of Psychiatry survey looked at the trials, they found a curious thing: In five trials that were paid for by Eli Lilly, its drug, zyprexa, came out looking superior to Risperdal, a drug made by the company Janssen. But when Janssen sponsored its own trials, Risperdal was the winner three out of four times. When it was Pfizer funding the studies, its drug, Geodon, was best. In fact, this tendency for the sponsor's drug to come out on top held true for 90 percent of the more than thirty trials in the survey." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Among its actions, it has potent antihistaminic effects. zyprexa seemed to provide Jeb some relief from his allergies, misleading him into thinking he was taking the right medicine. Perhaps sensing they were too strong, Jeb ended up breaking them in half and may have been taking them at the rate of 5 mg several times a week. The pharmacy error was not discovered until the prescription had been nearly used up. When Jeb and his grandmother went to pick up the new prescription, the boy noticed that the "new" Zyrtec pills didn't look like the "old" ones." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, as we are becoming all too aware by the growing number of lawsuits, governmental warnings, and media attention, these medications often end up causing more harm than good. zyprexa is just one case in point. Approved in 1996 by the FDA to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, it has been associated with increased risk of hyperglycemia and diabetes to such an extent that its manufacturer Eli Lilly agreed in 2005 to pay nearly $700 million to settle thousands of claims. When treating patients with bipolar disorder, Dr. Vickar recommends tryptophan or lithium. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"It's no wonder that serious safety concerns about drugs such as Vioxx, Paxil, and zyprexa have emerged very late in the day—years after they were in widespread use. Dr. Angell concluded that the FDA was becoming more dedicated to serving the drug companies than to serving the consumer of psychiatric drugs. Americans need to know that the FDA is not their friend. It's the friend of the pharmaceutical industry. _RhaptfiP 4 Young Girl Murderers in the Making THESE TWO STORIES are about young girls driven by Prozac into compulsive states of violence." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Zyprexa." The documents rocketed around the Internet and were subsequently published on several Web sites. Lilly sought and obtained a court injunction, ordering anybody who had a copy of its documents to return them prompdy or risk being sued. But trying to get all of them back was a little like trying to stuff toothpaste back into the tube. As of January 1 c, 2007, the documents sat defiantly available on Swedish servers, under a domain registered on Christmas Island, a tiny, coconut-tree-studded chunk of volcanic rock in the Indian Ocean." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In the extreme, patients taking antipsychotic drugs like Haldol, zyprexa, Abilify, and Risperdal become robotic-looking and even zombielike. A list of these drugs can be found in appendix A. Other than understandable sadness and remorse, compounded by the psychomotor retardation, Melvin seemed normal. Specifically he had no signs of psychosis and no paranoid, suicidal, or aggressive tendencies. His former psychiatrist, his therapist, and his mother confirmed the absence of any signs of mental disturbance." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Eli Lilly continues to deny any wrongdoing in the zyprexa diabetes cases. Imagine paying more than a billion dollars just to get the lawyers to drop false charges? As a part of the settlement, all of the most revealing documents remained sealed. Although I announced the initial settlement on my Web site, relatively few people heard about it or the sealed documents. Instead of encouraging the kind of transparency that a democracy should require of its corporations, Eli Lilly fights for its right to hide itself beneath the dark mud of corporate secrecy." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Consider the rather astonishing example of antipsychotics or major tranquilizers (including Risperdal, zyprexa, Seroquel, and Geodon).This class of medications is one of the biggest-growing sectors in drug sales. Antipsychotic usage has shown a 10 to 20 percent rate of increase per year over the last few years and today sales of these drugs total about $12 billion a year. Traditionally such medications were reserved for psychosis, defined as an inability to distinguish what's real from what's imagined." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "They said the company fraudulently touted the antipsychotic zyprexa for unapproved uses. Indianapolis-based Lilly settled about eight thousand personal-injury complaints for $700 million in 2005 and faces four thousand more claims. We are a drug-addicted society, and we are overprescribed medication when there are better solutions. According to The Journal of the American Medical Association, in an average week 81 percent of Americans use at least one medication, 50 percent take at least one prescription drug, and 7 percent take five or more drugs." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "The next frontier in medicine, psychiatry, and neurology is realizing that depression is not a Prozac deficiency, ADHD is not a Ritalin deficiency, and schizophrenia is not a zyprexa deficiency. We have the tools and knowledge now to make an enormous difference in this epidemic of mental and brain disorders by looking deeper and thinking differently. Getting off medications can be difficult, comes with certain risks, and must be done under a physician's supervision." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "Exercise can give you the same neurotransmitter and mental benefits as Ritalin and zyprexa without the risk or side effects. In fact, exercise beats or equals Prozac or psychotherapy as an antidepressant in head-to-head studies.10 So get moving! Don't Stress Your Brain Out Why don't zebras get ulcers? According to Dr. Robert Sapolsky from Stanford, they spend their days grazing in the savanna until a lion comes along, run like crazy until one gets caught, and then they all go back to grazing while the lion has his dinner. Relax, sudden stress, relax.That's why they don't get ulcers." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

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