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Monday, August 22, 2011
VA Spent $717 Million on Drug Deemed No More Effective Than Sugar Pill
Full article at: VA spent $717 million on a drug deemed as effective as a placebo
By Bob Brewin 08/22/2011
"Over the past decade, the Veterans Affairs Department spent $717 million for an anti-psychotic drug to treat post-traumatic stress disorder that a recent study shows is no more effective than a placebo.
Data provided by the department in response to a Nextgov query showed that VA doctors wrote more than 5 million prescriptions for risperidone from October 2000, the beginning of fiscal 2001, through June 2010. Risperidone is the generic name for Risperdal, a second-generation anti-psychotic drug."
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