Pharma Business: Off-label prescribing of gabapentin

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Stefan Kruszewski, a psychiatrist turned whistleblower writes in the British Medical Journal how gabapentin, sold as Neurontin, a drug known to increase suicide risk, is over-prescribed without any evidence to show effectiveness.

 

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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Saturday August 27 2005
updated on Saturday September 24 2005

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