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PART 2
It all starts out simply enough. It seems Dr. Gleason fell in love with a drug called Xyrem, used to treat cataplexy, a form of narcolepsy that causes temporary paralysis. The doctor decided that Xyrem was helpful for other things as well, such as insomnia and depression, so he started writing prescriptions "off label" for those conditions. Nothing unusual there. Doctors do it all the time, it's called practicing medicine.
Next the manufacturer notices the high number of prescriptions coming from Dr. Gleason, and asks if he would be interested in giving talks to other docs about how wonderful Xyrem is, for a fee. According to the Times:
"I started doing those, and I started getting requested a lot," Dr. Gleason said. He received $450 to visit a doctor in the office, $750 for speaking at a luncheon and $1,500 for a dinner speech. He made as much as $3,000 a day, he said.
Although he continued to see some patients, the Xyrem talks gradually became his primary source of income.
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Replied on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:00 AM
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The U.S. has the very worst drug policies of any where on the planet. They choose to make everything illegal, even plants that God put down here. We never hear anything about ibogaine from Africa that proves to cure addiction of any kind. They don't want that here, it would mess up their corrupt War on Drugs. It would help empty out the overcrowded prisons, and the jobs of those working in corrections departments. GHB is something that is in every human cell, but no- no!!!, its a date rape drug, yeah, right! We chose instead, putting methadone clinics everywhere, and get people hooked on something 100 times worse then herion. It is probably the worst drug of all time. Made, and named Dolophine, after Adolph Hitler. What a shame!! America is supposed to be a free country. I've spent 15 years of my life in prisons, all because of addictions. All of this was due to having a textbook case of ADD, and not being properly diagnosed at a young age. I hope to write more later, but I have to go.
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Replied on Sunday, October 7, 2007 12:00 AM
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