[In 2003, there was a total of $139 million in public spending on just two classes of drugs, SSRI antidepressants and atypical antipsychotics.] A large portion of these dollars were spent to maintain children on these drugs, ... despite the fact that they have not been proven effective in children and the FDA has not approved them for use in children. |
His originality was apparent from the word go. He deployed an intellectual rigour that turned his droll imagery into icons of our time. |
It reduces the total revenues to the district for our operations. |
It's the kind of use any community would want. It brings in high-paying jobs and keeps research in San Diego County. |
My best effort at correlating dollars spent with deaths from drug side effects suggests that people may be dying from side effects from the schizophrenia drugs alone at the rate of at least one death for each one million dollars spent on these drugs. The actual numbers may reflect a much higher death rate. |