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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 88411" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Neurontin is an anticonvulsant that had been fraudulently marketed to treat a slew of conditions there was no reason to believe it would treat. Bipolar is one of those conditions. Not only is it not approved for the treatment of bipolar disorder, the manufacturer stopped the clinical studies that could have led to that approval because the results of earlier studies failed to show any benefits to using the drug. </p><p></p><p>The Neurontin prescribing information contain this wording: Quote:</p><p></p><p></p><p>For a while it was quite popular with doctors (because of the fraudulent marketing) though virtually all parents reported that, at best, it did nothing. Considering the price of the drug, that's not good enough. </p><p></p><p>One benefit we heard about was that it didn't require blood level testing. Well, neither do Lamictal or Trileptal. </p><p></p><p>ETA: <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/14/BUGKK6L0LB1.DTL" target="_blank">A link to an article about the fraud case.</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 88411, member: 1498"] Neurontin is an anticonvulsant that had been fraudulently marketed to treat a slew of conditions there was no reason to believe it would treat. Bipolar is one of those conditions. Not only is it not approved for the treatment of bipolar disorder, the manufacturer stopped the clinical studies that could have led to that approval because the results of earlier studies failed to show any benefits to using the drug. The Neurontin prescribing information contain this wording: Quote: For a while it was quite popular with doctors (because of the fraudulent marketing) though virtually all parents reported that, at best, it did nothing. Considering the price of the drug, that's not good enough. One benefit we heard about was that it didn't require blood level testing. Well, neither do Lamictal or Trileptal. ETA: [URL='http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/14/BUGKK6L0LB1.DTL']A link to an article about the fraud case.[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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