Fraudulent Psychiatric Drugs

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Fraudulent Psychiatric Drugs

I graduated with a degree in chemical engineering form

Swansea University in 1997. My first job a chemical engineer was a

Nipa Laboratories in Llantwit Fardre near Pontypridd in the South

Wales Valleys.

My main responsibility was to run the P2 methanol recovery Column.

This was to distil a mixture of 10% methanol 90% water into a top

product of 99% methanol and not more than 1% water and produce a

waste product of 99% water and not more than 1% methanol that was

sent to the effluent storage tank before being tanked away by Welsh

Water for treatment before it could be put in the dirty water

drainage system of the country.

During my job interview I was warned by the Technical Director

Gareth Vokins that the site was dirty as most of the chemicals had no

pharmacological tests done on them. As the months went by I came to

appreciate the serious illegality of this. Garth Vokin's God son the

Healthy and Safety Officer Glyn Cox told me that there were no safety

trap doors around the ladders on the three story high distillation

column because he had bribed the Health and Safety Executive £800 for

them to pass the safety certificate to allow them to being production

at the commissioning stage of the life of the distillation column.

The law requires any ladder of over three meters in height to have

safety trap doors at the opening at the top or safety gates so that

workers can not fall to their potential death by stepping into the

opening around the top of the ladders. For pulling of the job off

bribing the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) he told me he was given

£400 by Gareth Vokins. Glyn Cox told me how it was an on going thing

to give bribes to the HSE and that the man from the HSE that

inspected the column was not interested in it at all but was keen to

come up to the office to pick up his cheque for £800.

One day there was a chemistry problem with the development of

the process for a new product and Gareth Vokins was losing his temper

as he frequently did as he had earned the nick name " The Viper " .

I walked into the laboratory part of the factory and was

confided in by a Scots man that worked there. He told me that he did

not know why the Viper was shouting at him because he was not a

chemist but a psychologist and that he was only pretending to be a

chemist for cover for his real job at Nipa Laboratories.

He went on to tell me that Nipa laboratories did not make that

much money from producing and selling chemicals but that he had been

secretly assessed at Swansea University while doing his degree in

psychology for criminal tendencies before being offered his job at

Nipa. He told me that they had taken the chance that he would not

mind being a criminal to earn lots of money and were right. He said

that he had paid off the mortgage on a three story house in King

Edwards Road in Swansea only two and a half years after graduation

for doing his secret job at Nipa Laboratories.

He explained that his job was to do medical research for the

institute of psychiatry in London, the professional body governing

psychiatrists. He told me that I too had been secretly assessed at

university for criminal attributes and that his job was to write

research notes on the workers claiming that the chemicals that they

were illegally being exposed to were having beneficial effects on

their mental health.

He told me that he had me down as being a little bit mentally ill

when I left university but having been exposed to chemicals at Nipa

Laboratories I was better.

He confided that the typical profit on a psychiatric drug is 4000%

and so he had to write research notes claiming that the chemicals at

Nipa were having anti-psychotic effects on the workers. He admitted

that he made this up entirely but said that he had to do it because

that is what made the money.

He told me how the notes he made were sold as research to the

institute of psychiatry in London and they would sell them on to

pharmaceutical companies at a profit with the assurance that they

would make sure their members the psychiatrists would all say the

chemical was an anti-psychotic if they developed it onto the market

as a psychiatric drug.

This was except for the reprographic printing ink. They were not

making any money on the printing ink business as they could be

manufactured more cheaply in the Far East and so they were keeping

that one for themselves as it was being developed as an anti-

psychotic medication that was going to produce an 8000% profit.

He said that at first he never thought he would get away with it

but the man that did secondary research for them thought it was a

really good anti-psychotic and he was getting good results by testing

it on humans that were meant to be mentally ill.

This was developed, I believe, by Pfizer and is now on the market

as an A-typical anti-psychotic called Respiradone and is sold to the

NHS for £120 per injection. It causes permanent lactation in women so

they have to change their bras every day and I have heard that it

causes the face to tingle. It needs an extra large nozzle for

injection as the particles of soot are squashed by the small hole in

a normal hypodermic needle.

He told me that he could not believe that it was taken to be a

cure for mental illness as he had made up the claims that it was

having any beneficial effect on the mental health of the workers at

Nipa Laboratories entirely.

He also told me that the biocide facility was been used for

chemical weapons research by the Ministry of Defence and that if

anyone ever tried to blow the whistle on it that they would be

assassinated by the Ministry of Defence.

The law requires that ant chemical in production has

pharmacological tests done on them as they must be submitted to the

Health and Safety Executive so that they can use the toxicity data

etc to set an occupational exposure limit.

However none were done on the vast majority of chemicals at Nipa

Laboratories so that it was not even legal to expose worker to the

smell of these chemicals. As no occupational exposure limit had been

set as this sets out the maximum level in the air that a worker can

be exposed to for 8hrs per day six days a week and 52 weeks of the

year.

The maintenance manager Roy Rixon was in charge of sacking people

that became ill due to exposure to chemicals at Nipa Laboratories. He

would tell them that they were complacent and that their hearts were

not in the job because they had come out in a big red rash or become

pale as a sheet and lacking in energy.

I was sacked by Roy Rixon for this reason on 28/01/98.

 

Written by Robert Alexander Jones on 22/09/07