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In Reply to: Cite your source of information posted by CB on February 16, 2006 at 20:56:32:
If you are a medical professional that's probably why you don't realize that drug testing is not only a joke but a scam. I mean come on, you go to school for years of indoctrination by schools controlled by the AMA, then you get out and you read your medical journals which are owned lock, stock and capsule by the pharmecueticals, This is old news. Check out this Wall Street Journal report.
"For the pharmaceuticals industry, persuading able-bodied people to sample untried and potentially dangerous drugs is a tough sell. To woo their human subjects, most companies have to advertise heavily and shell out $125 or so a day, occasionally as much as $250; SmithKline Beecham PLC even pays referral bonuses. By contrast, Lilly advertises less frequently and, at $85 a day, pays what competitors believe is the lowest per diem in the business.
"Alone among its peers, Lilly has become a potent magnet for homeless people. For more than two decades, Lilly's testing clinic has drawn from the ranks of the homeless, often alcoholic men who drift in and out of Indianapolis's church-run inner-city missions. Some mission directors privately express misgivings about this but say they are reluctant to speak up because they receive funding from a foundation built on Lilly stock, even though the foundation is independent of the company and its clinic.
"Word of mouth about testing at Lilly -- a company best known for the blockbuster drug Prozac -- has gradually spread through soup kitchens, prisons and shelters from coast to coast. Today, so many homeless men come to Indianapolis seeking admittance to Lilly's research clinic that Matias Vega, medical director of the local Homeless Initiative Program, credits the clinic with creating a "shadow economy." One veteran nurse at the Lilly Clinic says that the majority of its subjects are homeless alcoholics."
