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Risperdal-Help Org. : Blog Home : 2005-01-27 : Article

Overdosed - Zyprexa

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0501/S00239.htm

The new generation psychiatric drugs -- both antidepressants and anti-psychotics -- represent a growth market for drug companies. "National sales of antipsychotics reached $6.4 billion in 2002, making them the fourth-highest-selling class of drugs, behind cholesterol-lowering drugs, ulcer drugs and antidepressants, said IMS Health, a company that tracks drug sales," the New York Times' Erica Goode reported in May 2003. In 2002, according to NDCHealth, another company monitoring the industry, "more than 7.4 million prescriptions were written for Zyprexa and more than 7.6 million for Risperdal." Antidepressants and antipsychotics thus constitute two of the four top classes of drug sales.


 
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