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Zyprexa off label promotion scandal is all over the news now.
Lilly drug reps are alleged to have called their marketing ploy,"Viva Zyprexa".

Zyprexa which is only FDA approved for schizophrenia (.5-1% of pop) and some bipolar (2% pop) and then an even smaller percentage of theses two groups.
So how does Zyprexa get to be the 7th (some say 5th) largest drug sale in the world?

Eli Lilly is in deep trouble for using their drug reps to 'encourage' doctors to write zyprexa for non-FDA approved 'off label' uses.

The drug causes increased diabetes risk,and medicare picks up all the expensive fallout.There are now 8 states (and counting) going after Lilly for fraud and restitution.

Only 9 percent of adult Americans think the pharmaceutical industry can be trusted right around the same rating as big tobacco. ]]>Feb 8th 2008 4:58PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/02/08/misdirected-e-mail-reveals-billion-dollar-drug-lawsuit/http://www.switched.com/2008/02/08/misdirected-e-mail-reveals-billion-dollar-drug-lawsuit/Feb 8th 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/02/08/misdirected-e-mail-reveals-billion-dollar-drug-lawsuit/http://www.switched.com/2008/02/08/misdirected-e-mail-reveals-billion-dollar-drug-lawsuit/Feb 9th 2008 10:32PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/02/08/misdirected-e-mail-reveals-billion-dollar-drug-lawsuit/http://www.switched.com/2008/02/08/misdirected-e-mail-reveals-billion-dollar-drug-lawsuit/
"So, we were prompted to ask, what’s with “white shoe” anyway?

Grant Barrett, project editor of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang and author of the the upcoming book “Official Dictionary of Unofficial English,” passed along his definition:

[A]s applied to large legal and financial firms and their employees, conservative, staid, well-established, financially powerful; formerly and less frequently today, elitist, WASPy; the opposite of blue-collar."

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