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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1478278" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>I'm not a fan of what Coburn did there simply because the veterans need our support and it just wasn't that much money in the grand scheme of government budgets. It seemed as if most veteran's groups supported the bill. The secretary of the VA supported the bill.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand I also don't think that throwing more money into a dysfunctional VA would have by itself solved the epidemic of veteran's suicides. Maybe we need to look at the bigger picture. Could the DOD and VA be in bed with Big Pharma? Follow the money.</p><p></p><p><strong>Pharma-Tied Military Consultants Insist Suicides Not Caused By Drugs (That Are Documented to Cause Suicide…) </strong></p><p></p><p><em>In a series called "Medicating the Military," Military Times reports that one in six service members was on a psychoactive drug in 2010 and shows graphs of the suicide and prescription drug increases that exactly match.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>When it comes to Big Pharma and the military, there appear to be no firewalls. Matthew Friedman, executive director of the VA's National Center for PTSD, unabashedly admits receiving AstraZeneca money in a video and served as a Pï¬zer Visiting Professor while helming a government organization. AstraZeneca makes Seroquel on which the VA spent $125.4 million in 2009 alone.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Elspeth Ritchie appeared in a webcast funded by AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly while serving in the U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office and praised the drugs made by the companies. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>It is no secret that the military is one of Big Pharma's last, reliable revenue streams. In just nine years, the VA spent $717 million on risperidone, the generic form of Risperdal, to treat PTSD in troops--even though it worked no better than placebo. Thanks, guys. I have personally interviewed military families who show me shoe boxes full of drugs given to their family members for no clear reason and with no explanation. Some of the family members perished under the drug cocktails. The abuse of service members at the hands of Big Pharma is an underreported story and a national disgrace.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1478278, member: 1"] I'm not a fan of what Coburn did there simply because the veterans need our support and it just wasn't that much money in the grand scheme of government budgets. It seemed as if most veteran's groups supported the bill. The secretary of the VA supported the bill. On the other hand I also don't think that throwing more money into a dysfunctional VA would have by itself solved the epidemic of veteran's suicides. Maybe we need to look at the bigger picture. Could the DOD and VA be in bed with Big Pharma? Follow the money. [B]Pharma-Tied Military Consultants Insist Suicides Not Caused By Drugs (That Are Documented to Cause Suicide…) [/B] [I]In a series called "Medicating the Military," Military Times reports that one in six service members was on a psychoactive drug in 2010 and shows graphs of the suicide and prescription drug increases that exactly match. When it comes to Big Pharma and the military, there appear to be no firewalls. Matthew Friedman, executive director of the VA's National Center for PTSD, unabashedly admits receiving AstraZeneca money in a video and served as a Pï¬zer Visiting Professor while helming a government organization. AstraZeneca makes Seroquel on which the VA spent $125.4 million in 2009 alone. Elspeth Ritchie appeared in a webcast funded by AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly while serving in the U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office and praised the drugs made by the companies. It is no secret that the military is one of Big Pharma's last, reliable revenue streams. In just nine years, the VA spent $717 million on risperidone, the generic form of Risperdal, to treat PTSD in troops--even though it worked no better than placebo. Thanks, guys. I have personally interviewed military families who show me shoe boxes full of drugs given to their family members for no clear reason and with no explanation. Some of the family members perished under the drug cocktails. The abuse of service members at the hands of Big Pharma is an underreported story and a national disgrace.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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