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...Currently, there are two drugs approved to treat RLS. One of the drugs, Requip, made $500 million last year for the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, which first marketed the drug in 1997 for Parkinson's disease. Today, the company markets Requip - some say aggressively - as a treatment for RLS. It is now prescribed more often to treat that condition than Parkinson's, Rye says. Experts who challenge the validity of RLS say that such drug-company advertising campaigns over-medicalize phantom conditions and drive people to take drugs they don't need...
...himself an RLS sufferer, argues that more than 2,000 papers have been published in the past 20 years confirming that RLS is a legitimate condition. "About half of those papers occurred before drug companies even spent a penny on it," he says...
...neuroscientist who discovered vigabatrin for drug addiction, I was extremely pleased with the breadth and accuracy of "The Science of Addiction." The use of vigabatrin as a potential treatment for drug addiction derives directly from advances made in nuclear medicine imaging research at Brookhaven National Laboratory. If successful, its impact will be felt worldwide. Continued political support and financial investment in scientific research are vital to maintaining our way of life and that of those to follow after we're gone...
...DRUG NOTE...
Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin, have already agreed to pay a record $634.5 million for claiming, from 1996 to 2001, that the drug was less addictive than other painkillers when in fact it could be converted into a powerful street drug. A July 20 hearing at the federal court in Abingdon, Va., brings Purdue executives face to face with former addicts as a judge finalizes the penalties...