02/24/2024
Dr. Carl Elliott, a University of Minnesota bioethicist, and author "White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on The Dark Side of Medicine", spent much of his time researching the case of Dan Markinson, a 26-year-old, who killed himself during a Pharma funded "clinical trial", meant to prove the superiority of AstraZeneca's Seroquel over its competitors. The clinical trial took place in his Academic Institution, so Dr. Elliott found himself the subject of slander campaigns and very unpopular in certain circles.
The same situation has happened to myself, in pointing out the Abilify Maintena Maintena Hospital Free Trials Program at Island Health & Fraser Health, and the uncomfortable fact that 4500 BC patients were injected with this depot antipsychotic drug in 2022, during pandemic lockdowns, "for convenience, to ease caregiver burden and to facilitate hospital discharge".
Some were enrolled in the INITIATE trial and others The Panorama Program. Free product and incentives to enroll for 52 weeks and "honorariums" paid by or
So why is this important? In the case of Dan Markingson, it was the University of Minnesota, and the lack of human subject protection. That comes down to legislation in British Columbia with the Infants Act, The Mental Health Act and The Adult Guardianship Act, where a patient is at the "discretion of the attending specialist". The specialist is usually under the assumption that "Health Canada Approved" must mean the drug has been well researched in Pase 1-3 Clinical Trials and is entirely safe to use on people. We all follow pharmaceutical wrongdoings, we see the story being played out over and over again. A drug company comes out with a drug, promotes it like crazy to the physicians and prescribers, and it looks like a really big success. The company makes billions of dollars and doctors continue to write scripts like crazy, then the problems begin because it turns out the company knew about the problems but they were hiding them and burying them and manipulating their trials so that the problems were not exposed to the public or the prescribers.
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