no one ever told me before i started taking zyprexa or lithium, that if i stopped it, i would have severe withdrawal and psychotic symptoms. but it actually turns out that a lot of these medications, when you stop taking them, trigger in you the withdrawal symptoms that look like the craziness. a lot of people get put on meds at one point in their life, and then when they try to go off them, they're like, "oh my god, i really am insane." there's this fundamental impulse either toward suppressing our traumas by medicating the symptoms of them away, or "facing down our traumas," by delving straight into the teeth of whatever our childhood beasts are. there's not a lot of focus on what is in the middle, what does it mean to acknowledge the way that the past has been a formative thing in our lives, without reliving the past over and over. mental illness does not exist in a vacuum; saying that it is nothing but a biological brain disorder lets everybody off the hook... and makes it this situation where it's just the individual versus his or her inevitable biological madness. i think that a lot

eli lilly sales representatives told the.karzai giving five milligrams of their drug zyprexa at 5:00t helping patients sleep. in 2009, this company pled guilty to illegal promotion and paid one and four tenths billion dollars drug lawsuit. that large number becomes less significant as the cost of doing business. as you described, it is a profitable investment because even after government action stops illegal marketing, their effect on prescribing patterns may be long-lasting and difficult to want to. so, my two-part question, general levens then, is there a system currently in place to educate prescribers in response to this misleading promotion of drugs? >> provided training is absolutely essential, senator grassley. whatever is in place now needs to be far more robust. that is the key take away, i would hope, from what has been examined and what has been reported on is that there needs to be far greater understanding of the potency of these drugs in their appropriate application and how if you are going to the.door as opposed to the front door of advancing this kind of drug regime