Drug Firms Have Used Dangerous Tactics to Drive Sales to Treat Kids

Drug firms have used dangerous tactics to drive sales to treat kids
Pharmaceutical companies wooed academic leaders, ghostwrote ar- ticles, suppressed damaging health data and lavished doctors with gifts to make prescribing powerful psychotropic drugs to children a blockbuster profit center, a trail of lawsuits over …
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Modern addiction: Our heroin epidemic
The privately-owned Montevista Hospital, which provides care for psychiatric patients and substance abusers, has seen a similar surge in the need for heroin addiction treatment. Heroin users account for more than 50 percent of the beds in the hospital …
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Colorado responds slowly to psychotropic drug use among foster kids
About 4,300 of Colorado's 16,800 foster children — more than a quarter — were prescribed psychotropics in 2012, according to a University of Colorado analysis released to The Denver Post under open-records laws. … that people will just use …
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