Trial not just about weight loss-this involves

The active detailiing of Wellbutrin to pregnant women (birth defects), the detailing of Wellbutrin for kids, ADHD, bipolar, anxiety and more with death and/oer damaging results. The waste of Medicare dollars as an 'impotency' drug for all men and women. The paying of kickbacks to thousands of physicians to lecture off label at luxurious resorts. The weight loss portion is small, Stevens knows that and so does everyone else at GSK. We were trained and had to pass a test on weight loss in non depressed patients. Stevens is a fucking criminal in on much more than taking the bullet for GSK. Just wait


4. Feds: Ex-GSK lawyer put loyalty above law
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Former GlaxoSmithKline attorney Lauren Stevens didn't get much of a reprieve after her first indictment was tossed out last month. The government quickly indicted her again--on obstruction charges, among others--and, starting yesterday, took their case to trial.

Justice Department lawyers say Stevens tried to cover up potential marketing violations at GSK. When government investigators came calling, she responded by making false statements about the company's promotions of the antidepressant Wellbutrin, they maintain. She also failed to disclose some questionable marketing practices and didn't turn over potentially incriminating promotional materials, the indictment says.

"This is a case about a lawyer who put loyalty to her company above fidelity to the truth and to the law," prosecutor Patrick Jasperse said during opening statements in a Maryland federal court (as quoted by Bloomberg). "This is a case about a lawyer who went too far, from aggressively representing her company to breaking the law."

Stevens' attorney told the jury she didn't intend to mislead the FDA about Wellbutrin marketing. She responded to the investigation as advised by in-house counsel at GSK and by outside law firm King & Spalding, attorney Reid Weingarten said. "Everything she did in this case was utterly inconsistent with an intent to deceive the government," he said.

 

If you have something, become a whistle blower. What classes did you ever take and what test? No such thing. It's obvious you hate GSK. No one I know promoted Wellbutrin for weight loss. A good friend of mine is an MD that owns a comprehensive weight management practice. The only time he ever used any antidepresseants were when patients exhibited signs and symptoms of depression or disthymia. Hire a lawyer and grind your axe in court if you really have something.

 

Now there is some good advice and a lot of bullshit combined. Now, who would want to give up ten years of their life to blow the whistle ? Maybe someone with some balls and brains, unlike your lame ass.

 

I sold Wellbutrin for years and often sold on the pregnancy category B as well as the weight loss. Also sold a ton on the combination use with an SSRI. None of these were approved messages from marketing but there is only so much you can do with "no sexual side effects."

When you are threatened monthly with being fired for not pulling up numbers on a drug with no formulary coverage (b/c GSK was selling the generic SR for pennies)- you have to get creative to protect your job so you can feed your family.

 

Everybody did that and more, it was however a marketing plan. We were trained on weight loss in nondepressed patients...tested on studies, Why ? Every DM that rode with reps heard all the off label promotion, they all including marketing and upper level managers saw the call reports...then they went to Write Right (lie on call reports) Simple. Fax backs were a contest to see how many we could get out, whether the doc asked for them or not. Most reps carried copies in their bags, the ones without the not to be used for detailing, which we all got by simply calling in. These were plans by marketing, PRIDE programs and whore speakers were utilized by all to sell of label. Hudziak, Pradko, Montano, and hundreds of others were booked months in advance with off label slides printed by GSK. Are you shitting me ? Getting creative ? everyone was then creative because it was the marketing plan, it was a return on investment with some 50,000m speakers. If they didnot say what they were told, they were dropped. You think you were some kind of rogue rep huh ? LOL