Eli Lilly Employees Express Shame

I do not think I could explain to the BGA [the German drug regulatory 

Bouchy then went on to say that the issue had been argued back and forth for about a month between Germany and Indianapolis, Lilly s home 

Finally, on a very simple and non-sciendfic basis, I personally wonder whether we are really helping the credibility of an excellent ADE [adverse drug event] system by calling overdose what a physician reports as suicide attempt and by calling depression what a physician is reporting as suicide ideation Of course by the end of the day we will do 

The FDA creates a list of preferred terms to be used to describe specific adverse drug reactions. By January 1989, the year before these memos were written, FDA s dictionary, called COSTART, clearly specified that suicide attempts should be listed as suicide attempts (available on http //www.breggin.com). But regardless of the FDA dictionary, Eli Lilly was clearly trying to hide suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts under more obscure categories. 

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