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_Whistleblowers Charge: Psychiatric Prescriptions are Medicaid Fraud -

Health Supreme NewsGrabs Tuesday, 26 January 2010_

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PsychRights whistleblower suit challenges psychiatric prescriptions,

charges medicaid fraud " Even though the drug companies have been using these

methods to induce psychiatrists to prescribe these drugs, it is the

psychiatrists' responsibility to base their decisions on the facts, not drug

company

marketing, " said Mr. Gottstein, continuing, " the uncritical acceptance of

pharmaceutical company hype represents a massive betrayal of trust by the

psychiatrists prescribing these drugs to children and youth. "

AstraZeneca 'suppressed' drug test data Thousands of patients are suing

AstraZeneca in US courts, claiming the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel caused

weight

gain and diabetes. The patients allege Seroquel, its second biggest

selling drug worth $4.5bn (£2.7bn) a year, was marketed without adequate

warning

about possible side effects...