TMAP: Penn Pharmacist Fiorello Sentenced

Pennsylvania State Pharmacist Steven Fiorello was convicted on 2 felony Conflict Of Interest counts which carried a possible $10,000 fine and 5 years Each. Steven Fiorello has been sentenced, to 18 months probation.

The Pittsburg Tribune Review has:

Ex-State Pharmacist Fined $3,000 And Put On Probation


Here's some background.

Pharmacist Convicted Over Conflicts Of Interest/Pharmalot 12/08

Mr Fiorello had previously been fined $27,000 by the Penn State Ethics Commission.

AHRP/infomail

Thanks to the tireless work of Penn State OIG Investigator Allen Jones - who was Fired from his job, for Doing his job - TMAP is going down. See (backstory). The Relator named in Texas 2nd petition is Allen Jones.

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” -

— Mahatma Gandhi

Allen Jones is Not the only person to have been wrongly Fired - for Doing his job - in this Chemical Factory/Useless Bureaucrat "Profits Over People" Atrocity.
In March of 07 Evelyn Pringle had:

Makers of Zyprexa, Risperdal and Seroquel Under Fire.

"In the summer of 2002, psychiatrist, Dr Kruszewski, was employed with the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, and charged with reviewing psychiatric care provided by state-funded agencies to identify waste, fraud, and abuse. He was also responsible for reviewing the deaths of individuals in state care who died under suspicious circumstances in facilities inside and outside of Pennsylvania.

Early in his investigation, Dr Kruszewski noticed that almost all of the patients under state care were on drug cocktails consisting of antipsychotics, antidepressants, and anticonvulsants. The populations he found drugged most often, he said, were children in state care, the disabled, people in state prisons, and children in the juvenile justice system.

For instance, he says, Neurontin was only approved for controlling seizures, but "was being prescribed for anxiety, social phobia, PTSD, oppositional defiant behavior, and attention deficit disorder with no evidence to support these uses."

When he informed his superiors about the high rate of off-label prescribing and warned about the risk of liability to the state of Pennsylvania if it continued, he was told, "it is none of your business."

In June 2003, Dr Kruszewski inspected a facility in Oklahoma that housed children from Pennsylvania after an unexpected death of a child, and found children were being overmedicated and housed in deplorable living conditions, in addition to being sexually and physically abused by staff and kept in unnecessary restraints and seclusion.

In a report, Dr Kruszewski recommended removing the children from the facility, "in order to protect other innocent individuals from morbid and mortal consequences of severe over-medication, including chemical restraints; emotional, physical and sexual abuse; seclusion; and dirty and inadequate living conditions."

A day later, Dr Kruszewski was accused of "trying to dig up dirt," and was subsequently fired in July 2004, because he refused to keep quiet and accept that it was none of his business, he says."

And if you still think Antipsychotics are Not an Atrocity: See videos. TD and Read this article at The Bitter Pill: Antipsychotics Virtually Unfit For Human Consumption.