John Virapen used to be the executive director of the Swedish branch of Eli Lilly & Company, one of the biggest internationally active pharmaceutical companies. He engaged in the development of aggressive marketing strategies, which included to massive corruption in more than one occasion. He participated in the resolute distribution of drugs, which cause massive and dangerous side effects – like the death of the patient. Or the death of uninvolved bystanders caused by patients under the influence of antipsychotic drugs.
Did you know that
- pharmaceutical companies invest the considerable amount of 35,000 Euro per year and physician to get the physicians to prescribe their products?
- more than 75 percent of leading scientists in the field of medicine are paid for by the pharmaceutical industry?
- in some cases corruption prevailed in the approval and marketing of drugs?
- illnesses are made up by the pharmaceutical industry and specifically marketed to enhance sales and market shares for the companies in question?
- pharmaceutical companies increasingly target children?
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