In 2010 Eli Lilly was in court in the United States and was asked to produce any evidence that their drug, a powerful anti-psychotic, Zyprexa, helped Alzheimer's patients. They provided seven studies with no evidence.
Zyprexa and Johnson & Johnson's drug, Risperdal, are being used widely in our long-term care facilities on seniors for Alzheimer's, when there is no evidence it helps them at all. There is evidence, proven in court by their own studies, that those drugs, particularly Zyprexa, increase the risk of death for our seniors by 200% to 300%. Zyprexa causes diabetes. It also numbs out our seniors. They fall out of bed. They break a hip. They're dead six months later.
So our seniors in North America are literally—literally—dying in our long-term care facilities, taking a drug that offers them no medical benefit, but that—