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that i'm doing something now about society i could be said no i've said many people but do i really believe that it's hard. when the scare. friday was rubber helms and i am a professional guinea there's a take take relationship between me and the pharmaceutical companies my name is robert helms and i am a professional going to pick they need bodies to do the testing and i need money. so no i don't have any moral qualms my name is robert helms and i'm a professional in the real robert combs makes his living as a human guinea pig for scientific explain you're a guinea pig you have to fit the description they're looking for you have to be drug free and you have to pass a medical screening and the only way to consistently do that over and over is to lie. you tell the truth. if you say you've got
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anything wrong in your medical history you're going to be less likely to get the job than the next guy in line who's very consistently line three it did something happen to you when that made you want to do something like this the doctor who examines you knows that you're lying but when i lie to them i'm only lying so i can get work with a neat ok number two how much do you make the doing something like this to something like three hundred fifty a day now how that plays into determine whether the drug is safe and effective that's not my work number two or three it's time to find out which one of our players is the real human guinea pig will the real robert helms please stand up. if i'm lying i'm lying for pennies this is not a mansion you're looking at here this is
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a rented room. where i am my cats live when they lie they're lying so they can make billions of dollars over the course of many years while they have the patent on the drug they have an agenda to prescribe these drugs to as many people as possible that's their agenda it inside your body they want to make money and they have to use healthy guinea pigs in the regular society they're not able to use prisoners anymore they wish they could.
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this is holmesburg prison here this is who has served time that one thousand nine hundred sixty four to one thousand nine hundred sixty six i was in full sales of marijuana this is my first time man i'm scared you know twenty years old when i first got in there i seen all these inmates walking around then it's all over the bodies i found out these gases on tests from the university of pennsylvania on the dr albert cleat me and it first they were mine to test as you know like a johnson and johnson bubble bath to this and at the time it was pay and some like thirty some doubt put people in it but it was a bubble they had people was crooked and have police break to stifle my back it had all these deadly chemicals in it went into my bloodstream i stop breaking out with these little red pus to the bumps all over the lot bloody my hands and feet that be one thing that was not fair to stuff here on my thing is there constantly it's
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burning a scratch into they bleed i have prostate cancer degenerative rheumatoid offer right and hepatitis c. bubble bath does this to somebody i'm in. the clique and didn't look at us as human beings he looked at us as a commodity number or skin to experiment on you know still not guinea pigs now i got on the other test taking pills i had to take seven pills three times a day. but they did a double meet he had read my test. and they'd taken me in the back of home and butch they butchered me back to. this man with something to sort of never bit you don't want terminator that's part of your life miss that's a penalty and. i'm damaged i'm damaged goods from getting into things blind me not knowing what i was
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really doing to myself that name knew they knew they knew exactly they heard us to believe that to say you can destroy your life taken stop you system is going to come back to haunt you man you know a nasty way letting you know. let's get out of. get really going to get up in the morning go to the clinic. follow their legs. the be.
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down and i was like dentist thank you very very. much. and i think. it's just mental illness. to have some. of which she had. and this was his college graduation in two thousand. and a birthday card that he made for army i think he was probably about seven. and he says everybody is smiling but no everybody who's not smiling anymore.
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dan became ill and had i got him into fairview riverside hospital in minneapolis in november of two thousand and three and within a few days he was put into a clinical study that was run by his attending physician dr stephen seals and he was his attending physician and also the principal investigator in the clinical study it's an obvious conflict of interest dan and the chinese to be they're going into the study are going into a mental hospital he chose to study. that girl soon had control of her downs freedom he was taken out of his treatment medication and put on the study medication which turned out to be a star these clinical studies are marketing ploys far the pharmaceutical
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companies some drugs that were approved over a dozen years ago and should no longer have to be studied. i had no one else to turn to you know we had tried for everyone to help us because jan was of legal age i had no way of getting him out of the study and other than pleading with the doctors to let him out which they would not. it was obvious he was deteriorating by his demeanor he was a lot of white in he was gaunt and he felt he was being planned by devils he was. psychotic i told dr olson i know my son i said i see this in a rage please don't let it come boiling out which it did.
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was a former drug rep who helped shape his old watch marketplace which was the s.s.r.i. marketplace in the early ninety's it was a blockbuster market it was huge i mean every drug in that market did over a billion dollars prozac paxil zoloft select lexapro so i've been tracking that market for a couple of decades on and off years ago i met a psychiatrist who got consulted at the zoo to treat a particular young but know both chimp who was injuring himself and it got to a point where it was almost a matter of life and death so that's why they called in the psychiatrist they wanted him for a prescription they wanted a psychiatric medication beyond what they normally use so he wrote a script for paxil to reduce his anxiety to help with the o.c.d. behavior the young male chimp stopped hurting himself lost his anxiety was resold he's part of the troop he's in line to be an alpha male at some point so you could
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say it's an incredible success story but it was how he envisioned paxil being used in his human patients medication plus psychodynamic intervention he was able to do it with the bonneau both. i think. it was. i am mission free accreditation free transport charges free coming from and three kids three stooges i freak am old free broadcast plug in video for your media projects and free video dot hearty dot com.
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can. make. the book about international airport in the very heart of moscow. it's it's easy to say you know we're a world on drugs and specifically we're becoming a world on psychiatric medication i mean that's indisputable even if you look at primates in institutions human in apes they develop certain psychopath ologies that are fairy common i mean if you go across the street here there's a county run mental facility with human primates on
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a lot of medications but there's interesting differences are trying to get everyone out of that institution on heavy duty trucks and poly pharmacy and they don't have a lot of success many times people end up there because they want to be institutionalized they don't want to be dns to touche lies at that particular moment they're scared they're frightened they have no social support they don't know how to take care of themselves they realize that their psychiatric symptoms are overwhelming them but the whole push at those institutions is to get a medicated short term stay pharma mouth they have people checking in on them but not a lot of. socialists' not a lot of care of our pharmaceuticals maybe cash to survive in our economy and then you come across the street with your great apes and if they have psychological issues or psychiatric problems they're addressed immediately it's a fine tuned approach they incorporate the same psychiatric methodology in psychiatric thinking and styles of care and they hopped in and get the right
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results with in an institutional setting. where in the big families and. and michael and i have lived here for the overall. that almost to the day has seen some had some experiences with invisible or she actually were. in the one man but started on a little freaked from it first time. this is. definitely
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a big for the lives in people's minds where the differences between look goes on in your mind and what goes on reality i don't think we've got that all figured out yet . my brain isn't a beast. i am severely bipolar they call it bipolar rapid cycling borderline schizophrenia bipolar disorder creates noise in your brain that is constant the voices come from this way and voices come from that way and it's really like being possessed by satan the nuances of mental illness require the nuances of different medications to turn down the mania because when i go off manic it is tornado.
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this is sarah quo extended release. i take at night. this is depakote which i take twice a day abilify which oppression do cause that sodium so i compute new video ambien zimbo soon that stand whereas the pam lortab zoloft seroquel extended release again aspirin and just marijuana. so that's it. how many actual pills do i take a day. twenty or more so this is the healthiest i have been ever both mentally and physically a drugs are doing their thing. and they're working
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it's rare that i give in to any of the side effects although i have them every day . from iowa city iowa. born and raised here. join the i would national guard when i was seventeen years old as a medic with the one on one medical company. i figured you know if i'm the medic probably not every fighting people you know i'm going to be helping people. i was really into it everything the bush administration was putting out there and.
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two days effort and seventeen. i joined the national guard because it seriously if they could join right i'd say it's go time. i found out right before i left i was going to be station in prison. i never in my life thought i would work in a prison facility especially not one that was notorious for abuse and torture. i was so young when i was there so frayed and i wanted to get home so badly that i just tried to do it i was ordered to do and i guess just deal with it when i got home and it's been pretty rough. i knew i had a problem when i got home running relationships giving the legal trouble and i knew
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i was drinking the try to get things that happens and i showed up at the v.a. made an appointment and they smear p.t.s.d. and put me on so often hydroxyzine that they. have here i was taken here the v.a. has these contracts with certain pharmaceutical companies and if there's a medication that can help you or even maybe save your life you might not get that medications to them they use other medications for uses that they're really intended for just because they don't have as big a selection if i saw normal diet you're right health insurance i could afford it do you think i would have to deal with this crap and having to pick from. this selection who they have their deals with. i really don't know what's working.
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the hospital most is just the man raised and there is every say and i wake up sweating. terry explain to people that at a certain point in time you have such extreme anxiety that you don't even know what to do your pacing or frying your story. so it just becomes overwhelming for friends and family members news feel you've given so much yourself and so little in return except for all these problems.
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i don't need medication i need help. i need somebody to listen to me talk to me if they want to get in medication diminutives in the works. writing this book it's called tales from the script and it's kind of just assessing the last twenty years of how the industry gets doctors to write prescriptions that sort of a simple question but i think it's complex which is there to unravel it and i do i do this chapter i talk about well what anthropologists do is a lot like what drug reps do you know we have to do reconnaissance we have to build relationships all for different reasons you know one is for to gain knowledge and insight to help people hopefully and then and the other you know it's to make a buck. from a drug that's going to have to go with the scripts are being written and they're going to be written in this building in this is where they have to keep their
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samples and they come in and assess this is my product i'm going to get this one nice and high and i'm going to put my competition by over here see put it down there and then just throw it in the corner depending on a man it was and then i put my samples off right here that's probably going to stay there for a while until maybe my competition comes in the pfizer rep was here it could just pack up nearly to get things back that only is a little games you play through your rhotic drug rep stuff at the same time i'm sending anonymous mailers on zoloft whether approved or unapproved i'm leaving it off cards everywhere what i'm trying to do is over like a three month period make sort of kind of make it seem like it's naturally occurring as a last is a big deal this off is the new drug to be using i think many reps know that doctors think about what they do in terms of cases so if you can get a physician talking about a case they start to sell themselves let's say dr w. comes up to me and say how so i forget for he says it's going to say use it for depression your patients say of course it's indicated for depression and so using
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anywhere else no i've done nothing illegal. now let's say by chance that he says well you know i do use it for some patients with panic disorder that's an off label use of the drug i say well i got your signature for samples would you like some clinical information on what you just told me you're using saw for sure in officially i can put his name in the computer our medical department can send all these articles on using zoloft for panic disorder which at the times you legal i never did one thing wrong i didn't mention it for off label i didn't do anything i just asked them you know some questions that was legal and that's what we're trying to do you know at least that's the way i did it the times done right next call. that it might be left out here sometimes there is. this is a pharmaceutical rep who's here probably yes. yes or no and that's ok so they don't talk to anybody. and she was terrified i felt
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for in a way i actually felt sorry for drug reps because they'd been trying to cast just the problem they're sort of the mediator between medicine and the market in the sad thing for reps is they are told over and over they're delivering a message of good clinical signs. that they're going to spend a lot more time in the system than most people would have. i was adopted by american parents and out of behavioral issues and ended up in a group. that really want to go to six years i think any kid could have a problem with it. but when it's done and there's all my childhood stuff that's the
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spots here stuff i hang on to. that way photographs. being in a court of a research study with pretty much no different than being in a group you have about a structure you're told what to do when to do it. and when i'm not in the study and in the territory that i'm not comfortable you know i feel lost half the time.
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