A Pennsylvania Whistleblower, Dr. Kruszewski, has discovered numerous cases were adults and children in state care have been prescribed excessive amounts of psychiatric drugs.
Dr. Kruszewski has discovered that drug companies have been making so much profit from prescribing medications to patients who are covered by government funding. The medications that get prescribed to these patients are from a preferred drugs list. The drugs on this list are the first to be used for any patient in a state funded institution as well as those patients who are covered by Medicaid and Medicare.
Drug companies want to be on this list. By being first line treatment for the large number of patients who are in need of psychiatric treatment, these drug companies are sure to make a large profit. For example, Eli Lilly’s anti-psychotic drug, Zyprexa, would lose $70 million annually if it were removed from the state of Florida’s preferred state funded medication list.
This list drew suspicion when another whistleblower, Allen Jones, began to realize the list was full of drugs (1) that were exclusively new, patented, and expensive; (2) that had been selected by those who were financially close to Pharma; (3) whose safety had been contradicted by scientific studies.
The most suspicious thing that Jones found in the list was that many of these drugs have had serious fatal side effects on children.
After making these findings public, Jones was fired from his job. Since then he has filed a whistleblower lawsuit.
Dr. Kruszewski was also fired after he made a written assessment of children who were severely over-medicated with anti-psychotics, antidepressants, and anticonvulsants. The assessment also stated that these children were living in deplorable conditions. After Dr. Kruszewski recommended the removal of these children from the facility, he was fired and has filed a whistleblower lawsuit as well.
According to Dr. Kruszewski’s lawsuit, drug companies have “distorted statistics, violated regulations and misrepresented the effects of the use of their psychotic drugs simply to make money.”
