the reason seroquel is still being touted and defended by pharma, congress and just the whole medical establishment is what i can gather from these facts:

1) persons with bad psychosis or sever bi-polar manic episodes in the past had to be admitted frequently to the hospital psyche wards for weeks of observation and after a high recividsm rate ended up in a state asylum

obviouslly there is no money but for this miracle drug it eliminates costly hospital stays at tax payers expense

2) fact supporting the tactic approval is the fact these patients are know to not take their medicines as prescribed and rarely ever follow through on drug maintenance program offered to them by medicaid programs locally

3) these psychotics after a while off their legal meds once they start feeling ok they naturally at some point start getting into trouble many times taking alchohol or drugs and then the miracle occurs when all they need to do is grab a few seroquel pills to knock them out for a few days

4) the medicine is a godsend for medical community who otherwise know no cure exists for these people and they truly are not alcoholics or drug abusers as typically arises from recreational use the seek these as palliatives

5) FDA only approved seroquel for teh two conditions above however emails exist advising sales reps to essentially lie to drs that it was approved for off use for anxiety and agitation etc when in fact dangers were known

6) Astrazeneca(co) sent warning letters to drs in japan but not here although you did state it is there hidden in fine print now that blood glucose levels to be monitored before and during use of said drug

7) the two above FDA approved uses represent a very small percentage of psychotics and bi polars who would actually need thsi drug for instance many bi polars on just lithium alone are fine- these extreme manic episodes of people ripping the walls down in their homes are rare
so by lying to doctors about non FDA approved uses is how the many billions -est 2.2 billion first year sales in 1997-made this a wonedr drug

9) finally-although i am sure more damaging evidence exists in what the courts have on file in cases termed bellweather i guess nicer way of saying iron clad-the many innocent people harmed by this drug were the honest ones abiding by their doctors set dosage and taking them as scheduled. these are the ones whose lives will never be the same in fact some have died i dont have an exact account but this is public knowledge listed on the web and the rest whose bodies and health are declining rapidly just waiting to die and wish they were dead

10) it is very simple to determine a bell weather case- just take a patient who has been on several medications for 18 years and has medical records that glucose levels,blood pressure, genera health show no change but steady functioning life of wwork and stbaility devoid of severe episodes once he gets on this stuff s- seroquel and finds months later he thinks he is dying then the proof is there- this person was responsible with his life, did not waste valuable resources by being constantly hospitalized etc and he is the one victimized here

11)and in the case i know well the patient had non of the FDA approved symptoms he only had anxiety and agitation that in reality a good psychiatrist could have handled rather than a mere drug pusher who you and the whole system support

12) I say this because this ad glosses over in an artistic sleight of hand the dangers of this drug which leads me to believe you are aiding the defendants by with holding the damaging aspect as your fine print’s lack of bold lettering further supported AZN on the fine print lending itself to this fact as you obviously know these dangers but by failing to place them in plain view same as defendents you instead chose to obsure them within the accolades of some andy warhol asian knock off wannabe artist ad- that is the only message the ad supports same as you do when in order to help teh public you should have torn down the artists works subjectively to avoid more deaths

13) this whole chain of events is a disgrace and indictment against the gross intentional culpability of AZN and you the media for tacitly looking the other way the same as the medical community has down all along- you dont have the guts to stand up against these drug co because you might affect their stock price and become irrelevant as an media analyst losing respect from your peers is worse than saving lives us the suckers who trust