Drug companies caught pushing psychotropic drugs on underprivileged children

Drug companies caught pushing psychotropic drugs on underprivileged children

by Barbara Minton

(Health Secrets) So far the largest single pharmaceutical fraud settlement in history occurred in 2012, when GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plead guilty and paid $3 billion in criminal and civil fines for a list of bad behavior that included bribery of doctors with luxury vacations and lucrative engagements, fabrication of drug safety data and lying to the FDA, defrauding Medicare and Medicaid of billions of dollars, and using deceptive practices to sell potentially dangerous drugs. Now this appears to be just the tip of the iceberg, as the whistleblower in that case recently revealed that GSK and other pharmaceutical companies preyed on the most vulnerable among us, the children of the extremely poor and foster children. Read More.