A good resource for people looking for more information than a drug insert provides is: This site gives the FDA medwatch reports on serious post marketing events for many drugs.

www.patientsville.com

Drug inserts are often incomplete, and sometimes old, and are from when the drug was first marketed. Information about things that come to light AFTER the insert is FDA approved and the drug is approved, do not show up on them often. And many doctors are totally unaware of post-marketing warnings.

Even some studies have been shown to be fraud, as in the case Dr. Reuben from California:
http://lawmedconsultant.com/677/bipo...ud-while-manic

CDC just caught a doctor making fraudulent papers on vaccines and autism.

Merck concealed the toxic potential of Vioxx from doctors in one of the biggest fraud cases ever, with over 100,000 heart attacks blamed on it!

There are drugs with huge side effect profiles... that many people react to. Neurontin and Lyrica are two examples. In fact Pfizer was found guilty of representing Neurontin to doctors for conditions without FDA approval (in effect they experimented on patients, and convinced the doctors to do it!) Pfizer had to pay over 650 MILLION dollars in fines for that one.

The atypical antipsychotics have generated over a billion dollars in fines for over promotion, from Lilly, and other companies for Risperdal, Zyprexa, and Seroquel.
So when drug companies do this ....the internet remains a good resource to shed light on their hanky panky.

So one has to be very careful where one "searches" for answers.
Nowadays, one cannot always believe a drug insert!

A very good book to read about this is Bitter Pills, by Stephen Fried.

Another eye opener is
The Truth about the Drug Companies, by Marcia Angell, MD... who is the previous editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. This book will really shock you!

edit-- this new post from our PD forum reveals some of the nasty things going on with ghostwriting of papers...yes, drug companies steal names of Legit doctors and put them on papers to impress other doctors without permission:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread137816.html

If you Google "ghostwritten medical papers" there will be more, much more.