Thread: Latuda = coma?
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Old Mar 03, 2016, 12:48 PM
Takeshi Takeshi is offline
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The company that makes the medication is desperate and unethical. That was my point.

Anyhow I was a bit inaccurate to say that the disclosure of financial gift to doctors/politicians was not open was not correct. It was done a year later after the plan was in place. At this point, Japanese pharma has too much power, when the medication get introduced to Japanese market, if you aid that company, that'll hurt the whole psych field from patients point of view in Japan.

I browsed the figures of those pharma sponsored speech and how much those doctors has been paid and it is ridiculous. And since these actions are, which I believe, to be done by those pharmaceutical companies own volition by the pressure from the government, it is still a relatively a new idea for anyone that's concerned.

"Japan's Takeda agrees to pay $2.4B ln in diabetes drug suit"

That is a headline from USA Today, that is the company that developed Latuda.

The drug and the chemical compound itself is not bad, as you say, it may be a good medication and its formula is still protected under the patent and the extra money goes to the profit of the said company. They delayed the process of the disclosure for a year, and many doctors are on the side of the pharma, therefore the most important patients care get neglected. CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS!

While you maybe able to wait, or choose another company's medication, you still choose to pick the one that is right for YOU! What if FDA or APA were to be getting tons of money from the maker of Latuda, how would you feel?

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Sure I could be on generic Seroquel, but even at 800mg/day, eventually it stopped working.
And is anyone asking why?

The Latuda that is working for you right now won't probably be a godsend years down the road, that was made by the company, just some humans. By looking at their track record or current position in the market, they are not giving **** if that's gonna keep working for someone like you with MI.

All I'm saying is that anyone who's taking or considering taking this particular brand of drug can be aware of what I'm trying to tell and make a wise choice for the future. They resisted to follow the ethical business practice that we require just a few years ago. Any Japanese companies are like that. I'm not saying all of them but when it comes to human health, this is dead important matter to consider. They may have researchers/clinicians to develop next gen drug that might help you or the others, they do not need your money right now.

More to the point, all the money we spend on psychiatric medication, especially on branded ones should go to another research field that is not tied to pharmaceutical companies. Aren't the generic ones supposed to work the same by the way? If many patients find them different to the original ones, why aren't we discussing that? Maybe there are some discussions already, someone can point me to the right direction in that case.

But I say this, all too often, I hear the branded ones are better here on PC. Japanese medical providers are in recent years pushing for generic drugs, and new ones are not easily approved, we have much less off-label uses for psych pills. Where do they find a more profitable market?

To everyone, please reconsider which medications to add to the mix of the cocktails. Thank you.

ETA: The money trail of the Japanese pharma is not printable! This news paper company barely managed to collect the datas/figures because these companies opened those figures for limited time only for the consideration of doctors. When I was still seeing a pdoc years ago, there was a ballpoint pen for me to use courtesy of drug company. I pointed that out to this lady doctor and she had a face who didn't understand the point. We could ask for better care, doctors and medications with our decisions!

I didn't mean to hijack this thread but it looks like that's exactly what I'm doing. The awareness of the market force. That is a good thing to remember when it comes to the branded medications. Are you sleepy yet? It's my bed time, g'night.

Last edited by FooZe; Mar 31, 2016 at 01:07 AM. Reason: administrative edit to bring within guidelines