Confessions Of a Pharma Executive

The consumption of medicines is not as benign as widely believed. All medications have side effects and adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Drug companies try to get away from disclosing ADRs.
The following video is by an executive of one of the largest drug companies Eli Lilly and Company, Dr. John Virapen, Director of large pharma companies for three decades, who dared to expose the drug industry. Please watch the attached video below. Here are some quotes from the video.

1. “They (Pharma industry) are not interested in curing any disease you may have. They are more interested in making you get diseases. They are interested in symptomatic treatment. They want patients who are diabetics, cardiology patients, Parkinson’s disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Arteriosus, because you live a long time and the drugs you have to take, you take that for the rest of your life.”
2. Few years ago, Eli Lilly was fined by a Pennsylvania court 1.4 billion dollars for knowingly selling a schizophrenic drug Zyprexa to elderly patients which made them sleepy and also diabetic. Eli Lilly is the largest producer of diabetic drugs in the world.
3. “But it (the news of settlement) never came out, you know why, because the press, also works with the Pharma industry just like the Government does.”
4. “The Pharma company uses the media to implant its dirty work on you. You never get to know the truth until it is too late. So, you have to raise your awareness to a higher level. Don’t take for granted what you doctor is telling you because doctor is insane. “They don’t know much about the medicine, and they don’t care much about the patient. They think about how much they can get paid, and this is how the Pharma industry reigns, stays in power. They buy the doctors. The doctors don’t get their information from anywhere else except the Pharma industry and I know because when I was a salesman, the Pharma company used to tell me; never talk side effects. They talk of something called FAB: Features, Advantage, Benefits. Talk about side effects was a taboo. I also know that they hide the dangerous side effects because I was in charge of the critical trial for Prozac.”
5. Late US president Grorge Bush’s father was a Director of the Board of Eli Lilly. Also, one of George Bush’s advisors was a vice president of Eli Lilly.

Eli Lilly is one of the largest political contributors to the Republican Party.
“That, ladies and gentlemen, is the highest form of corruption. It is called lobbying.” 👇

Dr. John Virapen on the Drug Industry (38 m 36 s)
https://youtu.be/jTweQVGAwVo